Word: perish
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...democracy, is responsible for that change. So long as public opinion is determined that the ultimate welfare of civilization demands the defeat of Germany, Prussianism is doomed. America believes now, as never before, that the fate of humanity rests with her. Such an ideal is too noble to perish. And America is to be truly thankful, not merely because of her large Army and Navy, but primarily because the nation realizes that that ideal shall not perish...
...government takes over the operation and administration of the industrial functions of a nation, a state of socialism is approached. Socialism demands efficiency. But since efficiency in the nature of things is incompatible with true democracy, when efficiency is permanently obtained, democratic government must perish...
Five hundred boys of eighteen or nineteen are of more value to our civilization, we may believe, in undertaking earnest work in Harvard than they would be in serving at the battle front. They represent that tradition which will not perish though a hundred army corps perish, and though the superficial structure of our mode of life be ruined beyond reconstruction...
Remember this, you men who have been nurtured here: Wars come and go, and men come and go, but Harvard, which has nourished men in her high ideals, and those other great universities which keep in trust our culture, will not perish till our civilization perishes. To that far time we need not look...
...great difference twenty years from now. Unless the unforseen happens, within the next year, many courageous young men will be called on to pay the last tribute to their nation. Other men who, not from weakness, but by chance, having fought well and side by side with those who perish, are left unscathed by war, will have the knowledge to elevate their spirits that they shunned in now way injury or destruction because of fear, or weakness soaring into dishonor. But what of those men who now fearfully and silently, are contemplating how they may avoid, by perjury...