Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...United States Senator. ... I am sensible of the great honor. ... If I am elected to the Senate, my only obligation will run to the voters of the State and my own conscience. . . . Tonight I am going to discuss Prohibition [loud applause]. It is a question which constantly confuses moral principles with the art of government. . . . "It is not my purpose to discuss the merits of Prohibition as a policy. That is not the issue. The issue is whether it is practicable and in the public interest to apply that policy to the United States as a whole through the agency...
Plan Facts. "The nations of Europe today must unite in order to live and prosper." declares M. Briand's plan. This is his axiom, his slogan. He proposes "a moral union of Europe" based on "a Pact of General Order, however elementary...
...Grocer Habsburg's memoirs contain a moral it is his insistence that since the War society's morals have not grown worse, as is often charged, but improved. Writes the Emperor's nephew: "The Emperor, and nearly every Archduke and Duke, had a mistress as well as a wife. As often as not the infidelity of each royal husband started almost immediately after his honeymoon...
...cross as a sacrifice to satisfy divine justice over against the cross as a symbol of self sacrifice; salvation as a divine gift over against salvation as a human achievement; the Bible as the revealed Word of God over against the Bible as a purely human product; the moral law as a divinely imposed rule of life over against the moral law as an everchanging resultant of human insight and experience-Rome, at the points at which the battle rages most fiercely today, is our ally rather than our opponent...
When birth control is viewed from the perspective of Humanity in general the matter assumes a different tinge. The Industrial Revolution and its later ramifications extending well into the Twentieth Century have introduced for all practical purposes a new code of morals Separated from the agricultural system where a literal interpretation of Christian tradition could well have been enforced, Youth is bound either to remain celibate under the pressure of the Factory Age or to draw up its own moral code. It prefers the latter, but is hampered by superstition and Victorian prejudice. The paradox of the educated classes with...