Word: nationalization
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...bulwarks upon which our individual freedom rests. Yet free speech does not imply immoral speech, not speech with the obvious and declared desire of formenting revolution. The men and women in question, most of them born on a foreign soil, and received generously into our nation with the free rights of citizens, have used our hospitality to strike at the foundations of our laws. There may be a few to weep their martyrdom. But they will be very...
...that those whose conscience is against all form of war, and who would gladly see whatever calamity in preference to war, shall be excused from bearing arms beside their fellow-citizens. Our people does not desire to enforce against any man's scruples the duty of defending his nation, for the possibility that it, the whole people, may be wrong, and one man right...
...could blithely believe that, and pity those seventy millions who were bound so harshly by Junkertum to the wheel of war. But the history of the world as man constitutes it shows that a like view is fallacious. No cabal of autocratic rulers could have forced a nation, either by lies or threats or cajoling, to that unity for sacrifice which has come over the German people...
...nation has seen the power and the glory of empire, as other nations, some greater and some less, have seen it for centuries, and united it is willing to give the very limit of its strength for empire. It is Persia risen again, without the wisdom of Persia, who had tolerance for subject peoples. It is revolutionary France, without the ideal vision of France. It is Rome...
...Napoleon who had dreams of empire a century ago, or the French? Was it Attila who scourged God, or the Huns? That nation is a nation of exceeding fools which fights for conquest without knowing, the desire for conquest, nor the value of conquest. And no nation of exceeding fools was ever able to fight as has Germany. Or to fight at all, for that matter...