Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...great danger in democracy is that people resent any presence of necessary discipline as opposed to freedom; it is not necessary to Prussianize a nation through militarism, but an athlete knows that discipline and control are necessary to his own freedom in order to do his best work...
...great moral advantage for the Allies and the Germans to see the Stars and Stripes along the Hindenburg line? After all, what it really means is this, and the pacifists will only waste their time in arguing against it, that here in the United States you have a nation of 100,000,000 people eager to prepare, with practically unlimited resources at its command, and the greatest inventive capacity in the world, and there is no doubt in my mind that in a year or two you could organize a larger army than any Power in Europe, and, what...
American intervention in Cuba transformed a Spanish colony into an independent nation. American intervention in Porto Rico changed a Spanish colony into an American colony. The difference is too obvious to need further explanation, but if it should be urged that although the form of government is different, Porto Rico has enjoyed as great a degree of material prosperity under American domination, as Cuba, my answer would be that the descendants of Don Quixote think more highly of their honor than of their bodily comfort. For myself, I say that I prefer a thousand times self-support with...
Olive-drab is the badge of a nation's fighting men. There must be no disregard of the uniform, no use of a part of it as a convenient riding or golfing costume. Men who are going to fight bravely must dress and carry themselves in accord with the honor of that lofty cause which draws their allegiance...
...Germany, France and England the exigencies of war have compelled the consolidation of aeronautics under a separate department controlled by an air minister, and if we are to accomplish any results commensurate with theirs or worthy of this great nation, we shall find it necessary to follow their example. The air minister in England, and I believe in the other two nations named, has charge of the material, construction and supplies for the aeronautical branch, and the training of aviators generally. The machines are then delivered respectively to the Admiralty and to the army, who furnish the personnel and conduct...