Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...surpassing zeal some men have gone too far. It is well enough to say that the earth goes hungry, and that all our resources are needed to feed it. It is well enough to awake the nation to the duty which it must perform. But it is going beyond necessity or reason to tell in dismal words of famine stalking abroad, and of the collapse of most of our civilization through the lack of food. Some Government officials whose word bears weight, and who should know better, from a too strong imagination have done so. There is no need...
...people do as they should. That rule is supposed to work well in the nursery, to guide children in the path of duty. But no prophecies that "the famine'll get you if you don't watch out" may be used to instil fortitude and determination into an intelligent nation. If we as a people need such methods of comprehending the necessary, then we have small reason to exist as a strong people, but rather as a pygmy-souled race of children. However, we need no such methods, as is quite obvious...
...those who shelter dark fears that our nation with difficulty may raise a national army of five hundred thousand men, whose fortitude is equal to the task which must be done, it may be pointed out, unless someone has been deceived, such an army might be raised overnight from only those who are most eager to volunteer. Entirely disregarding that now historic million which was to spring to arms in the same short time, there were two hundred thousand men eagerly anxious to obtain admission to the officers' training camps. Their pristine patriotism may not be considered to have lost...
...same time enjoying interest. Behind them rests all the resources of this land, every factory, every railroad, every mine, and all the incalculable wealth of fields and forests. Behind them rests even the skill, the enterprise and ingenuity of our people. If property is safe, if the nation is safe, if life is safe, then those bonds are safe. And if those bonds are not safe, then a man had as well consign his gold to the sea and his existence to oblivion, for the world...
Those men who may not, or are not going to war, have in the Liberty Loan a way of showing their confidence in those who pay their irredeemable lives for the nation's being. They cannot fail to equal in cheaply gained gold that sacrifice which others make and may not regain, having made...