Word: nobler
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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...
Whatever the source, few Britons liked the proposal. The argument that the Eternal City was rich in monuments and relics of a nobler Rome carried little weight with Britons, who had lost many of their own national shrines to Nazi bombs. Also unimpressive to most Britons was the suggestion that Rome might be saved by a trade: in return for Rome's immunity, Mussolini might move himself and his unhappy Government to some other city. If such a move would disrupt Italian life and resistance sufficiently to make it even worth discussing, bombs on Rome would do immeasurably more...