Word: perishability
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ahead of the politicos on foreign policy. We have been in every major war, even with an isolationist policy. We can't get into any more of them than we have with an internationalist policy. So what in hell are we waiting for? ... Peoples perish because they are too dumb to survive. The only way to have peace is with an internationalist policeman's club...
...moral, I should like to say to all who are in doubt that reform commences in one's own back yard and perfection comes from within. . . . And to those who expect miracles out of the war, there is another old saying: those who live by the sword shall perish by the sword. Even my eight-year-old son knows that fighting settles nothing, but is sometimes necessary in order to preserve one's self-respect...
...which it has been openly regarded as wrong for a nation, a Government, a party, or even a newspaper, to have a policy. . . . Field Marshal Smuts, Lord Halifax and Mr. Lippmann are rebuked for saying, with more or less frankness, that a nation without a policy may perish...
Magnus: It may also be a trap in which England will perish...
...counsels of meekness; do Thou heal the discords that tear the nations asunder; Thou Who didst shed Thy Precious Blood that they might live as brothers, bring men together once more in loving harmony. And as once before to the cry of the Apostle Peter: "Save us, Lord, we perish...