Word: might
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...duty to perpetuate: political, spiritual, and moral idealism. The political idealism of the Allies has been democracy, as opposed to autocracy. The spiritual idealism is the refraining from all the brutal tactics and atrocities that the enemy has practiced The moral idealism is the combatting of the principle that might makes right...
After the first flurries of the peace storm have blown over, it might be well for us to take account of stock and see what the new situation has in store...
...during the Germans' July offensive--but they're more quiet now than then, I assure you. Save for our presence and that of a few civilians who have come back to take up the sorry task of rebuilding and rehabilitating--yes, and save for an occasional air raid--we might as well be in some old stone quarry, camping by piles of scrap rock...
More than one company commander has told his men that no matter what their view of life in general might be, the work in which they without exception are now engaged is a serious business. It is serious for two very good reasons: first, because the manner in which it is done will determine very largely how soon the peace of the world shall be restored and founded on a durable basis; secondly, because it will mean for every man in service the unmixed happiness or lasting discontent of his later years whether or not he is conscious of having...
Germany's military might is beginning to crumble, and we now see the first effects of it not only on the western front but in Palestine and in Macedonia. The process of disintegration is not likely to be rapid for a long time, but there is conclusive evidence that it has begun. Some of the hardest fighting of the war is still to come, for when the actual invasion of German territory begins and the scene of war is transferred to German soil, the Impeial Government will be able to make a powerful appeal to the sentiment and interest...