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...comfortable under it; it is not so easy to justify it in the minds of those who suffer under it. If those who suffer under it happen to be a majority, as was the case in Russia, they are the ones who will decide whether civilization shall, survive or perish. Therefore they are the ones who must be convinced that it is worth saving. If they are in a minority, as we hope they are in this country, they will not have the deciding voice, and civilization will be tried before a jury not prejudiced against...
...have a new gymnasium by all means but let us look further before we settle on it as a War Memorial. The monument which is finally erected for this purpose should not be one that will perish at the end of two score years, but one that will still carry its noble message to future classes at the end of two hundred...
...terrible blackness of over four years, the light of dawn is once more breaking upon a world obscured by the gloom of death and suffering. The great cause for which so many have sacrificed their lives has at last been achieved. Fate has decreed that justice shall not perish. Men may now breath the full essence of life undisturbed by threatening clouds of destruction. A world of international brotherhood, in place of a world of international strife, is now in the making. With the realization of this hope, with the ominous danger of war removed once...
...Civilization as we know it has reached a point where it must preclude war or perish by war and war can be precluded only by a conquest of the world by a single power, or by an organization of many nations to prevent its recurrence...
...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...