Word: minding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...among civilized nations warfare is the only means of protecting national rights and of preserving national honor, but there is no other, and if there be a true cause, we have no choice but to fight. But throughout a war men of the higher patriotism must bear always in mind that if in the future means can be devised to maintain our rights by reason rather than by might, by civilized methods than by barbaric, in a man's way than in a child's, then the older methods must be substituted by the new. G. R. WALKER...
...victory in a contest which involves freedom and democracy and in which our own security would be at stake. If war should come we must never for a moment forget that the individual life is nothing in comparison with the life of the country, and ever bear in mind the words of Bacon that "the chief duties of life are more Important than life itself." There can be no higher duty than to serve the country to the utmost of our ability when the hour of stress and trial is upon...
...defend other people's interests. If only our older compatriots, weak of loins but mighty of mouth and pen, could be induced to go to the front and put their noble words into action, I think the rest of us would get along, quite well, and be content to mind our own American business. Nobody seems to know exactly what the flags in front of University Hall mean, but if they mean that the young men of Harvard are thirsting for anyone's blood, they ought not to be there. WALTER SILZ...
...willing to give--what you've no mind...
...allow them to become part of a military machine whose purpose is the destruction of life. We recognize that conscription laws usually provide for conscientious scruples, but unfortunately the men who are appointed to judge the validity of these scruples are either military men or civilians of a military mind. They are unable to comprehend the workings of a conscience different from their own. These British courts have not only forced conscientious objectors to go to the front, but have sentenced them to hard labor, to prisons where they have been tortured, and some cases executed. A compulsory military system...