Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...their Kaiser." What free men will offer their lives to the ambitions of a single leader? It passes the imagination of us who are fighting for great ideals that such a thought could be widely accepted today. It indicates a condition of the German mind which unites the nation in a dogged support of the Kaiser. Such an utterance bespeaks a unity which we must face with difficulty...
...Valley Forge and Morristown, the public confidence in his uprightness as trustee of the presidential powers which made possible the ratification of the Constitution. Coupled with self-sacrificing loyalty, Washington displayed a statesmanlike insight. His policy toward warring Europe won for the United States the respect of all foreign nations. In his administration he was not afraid to associate with him in government the ablest men of the nation, regardless of personal or party favoritism...
...most amazing social change which the war has brought about is the transformation of our army from a small command of miscellaneous volunteers into a gigantic union of the fighting citizens of the Nation. More than a million men, selected for their youth, their courage, and their virility, are to present America to Europe in the guise of warriors, and in all the pictures which we have been permitted to see of them they are so unmistakably of the New World that only a glance is needed to distinguish them from a group of French or British soldiers, fine, upstanding...
...world situation is the fact, the actual fact, the stern fact, that we are engaged in war. We are so far removed from the conflict, there is so little suffering about us, so little that speaks of war, that the mind can hardly grasp the fact that the Nation is mobilizing with tremendous rapidity its entire strength for the supreme effort ahead of it, and that those in authority realize that this strength in the fullest is going to be needed. The people as yet do not realize that war is upon us, but when they do, they will quickly...
...natural laws of economics apply in times of war as well as in peace. Supply, demand, the distribution of labor can be only directed, not governed, by Federal action. It requires the co-operation of the entire nation to insure a proper emphasis upon our war industries...