Word: nobler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been lifted into control, that he is automatically made competent to exert control. When the Common Man was thus suddenly liberated, what he needed . . . was such education as would enable him to understand what hitherto only the controlling few had been encouraged to try to understand, the nobler and wiser aims of the race, those visions which dictate the ethical foundations of a sound society...
Whether 'tis nobler to suffer defeat...
...this, in my opinion, is what demoralized Christianity, and Protestantism in particular: that a clergy which is worldly in every particular, instead of admitting that it is indulgence from a Christian point of view, has reversed the position and made that worldliness into something Christian, something far nobler and truer than real self-abnegation [and] poverty. . . . The world has seen through that, and the clergy is consequently without influence...
...from here we must go as brothers. . . . The League of Nations is here. It is in you, but you must inspire it with the breath of life. . . . We must be inspired by our clear vision of the world that is to come, the vision of a greater and a nobler civilization. . . . We meet to establish for all time peace among the peoples of the earth. . . . Gentlemen, to our task!" When Wilson pledged that the American purpose was "the cause of justice and of liberty for men of every kind and place," French Delegate León Bourgeois broke into tears...
...economy, efficiency. In his first try for the Governorship, opponents jeered that he presumably also stood for home, mother and God. He replied: "I respect the Constitution and the flag of my country. I honor my mother and love my home and I revere God. I know of no nobler platform...