Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...nation does not need to be frightened into blind purchase by the threat of an indemnity being demanded in case of a German victory. But it does need to realize that each citizen must bear his financial share of the cost of war. There may be no evasion of individual responsibility...
...wiser reflection one realizes that of such men no nation, even the very least, stands in need. Our strength would not be strengthened by their weakness, nor would the honor of our flag and the safety of our people be upheld by those who value above all honor and natural safety their own poor integrity...
Under the laws of governments, a man is born into a nation, and enters on the work of his nation, making with it war and peace. His ideals by inheritance and training are supposed to be typical of the ideals of his nation. From the sum of many individuals Powers are built...
...however, there are in this nation a number, small but hardy, of men who by unpolitic fate have been born to a land with which they have no sympathy, we should not with harsh restriction prevent them from seeking the lands of their hearts desire. A hundred million people may not bind their hands in weakness that a hundred men should live free from the perils of valiant service. But the hundred...
...nation lacks fully enough men for every service save chaplains. The experience of the warring nations has been that there are always enough chaplains. Their further experience has been that chaplains consume about as much canned marmalade and bully beef as those whose tastes are presumably more bloodthirsty. In a pinch, when face to face with necessity, a man can pray, or consign his soul to eternity without the aid of a trained intermediary...