Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Commission has voluntarily gone further than formality and friendship would demand, and in visiting representative cities of the country it has introduced the people in person to France. That act of cordiality will not be valueless. An awakened trust in that brave republican nation which now is fighting for its very life against the enemies of all free governments has arisen in America. We remember, as we might have in idleness forgotten, the help rendered by the sword of Lafayette in our own hour of need...
...young men who some day trust they will do something this careless world will not forget, Harvard men will be stirred to see this man who has saved a nation. There will be few enough in life to attain to greatness. Joffre has attained it in fame while republics yet live on the earth...
Permit me to call explicit attention to the saving of man-power and the increased efficiency of the nation's workers which might also be obtained through prohibition. The great problem at the present time is to bring the nation to its highest productive efficiency. This may be done through the conservation of foodstuffs and other raw materials, by withdrawing men from non-productive or destructive occupations and putting them to work where their labor will be of use, and by increasing individual efficiency in any way whatsoever...
France has given her truest blood in this, her terrible war. The gift has been made freely and without question of the sacrifice. There has been no miserly doling out of life where the life of the nation, which dominates and includes the life of all individuals, was threatened. In brave fortitude the republic does not look to the past, nor count the tale of its dead...
...time to argue concerning the defied and immemorial right of men to get drunk when they want. There is no time to rant about the freedom of the individual; nor to sentimentalize poetically upon Dionysus. We are not fighting philosophers, demagogues, or poets. We are fighting a nation which allows no waste...