Word: ought
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Probably there will be no contention made but that the Government ought to prevent injury to itself by prohibiting and punishing words which result in anarchy or crime. Whether the Government should go further and say that it will prohibit and punish the utterance of words which may possibly so result is another question, and it is the question which Harvard and Washington are going to debate...
...think it unnecessary for me to get into the arguments for and against Italy's complete annexation of Fiume. It certainly ought to be recognized (the late war is a painful example) that the peoples of any nation--especially agricultural nations--must have a natural and accessible outlet to the sea. Italy's uncompromising control over Fiume and the surrounding country would virtually bottle up Jugo-Slavia, Austria, Hungary and Czecho-Slovakia...
...this, my first and final criticism, of Gabriele D'Annunzio in your columns--I cannot help making one recommendation. If I am wrong in the frank opinion of the tribunal of posterity--and D'Annunzio is what he candidly claims to be--the only idealist now living--the world ought without a whimper to accept the inspiring leadership of Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts and James A. Reed of Missourf. JOHN O. CRANE...
...think all college men, mindful of the leadership and responsibility the United States ought to assume in raising the world from demoralization, should be for the League of Nations." This is the statement which Ex-President William Howard Taft made to a CRIMSON reporter when asked to express his personal opinion on the attitude with which college men should view the League...
...Elihu Root, Hay, and so on. We want to get the best men possible to help us. That is a sound administrative policy. Let's not try to do it all ourselves. We also want a sound, foreign commercial policy, which is something we have never had. Our consulships ought to be filled by men who know the needs of our country, who are familiar with their business, who know about our resources and our ability to meet the demands of other countries. We want to build up intelligently our commercial policy and there never was a better opportunity than...