Word: say
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Monroe Doctrine," Professor Johnston went on to say, "is excellent food for Government courses and Congressional discussion. But we can't enforce it. Being perfectly defenceless, we ought to prepare...
...weekly class in naval instruction to be begun next Monday at the Navy Yard on board the Virginia offers an unusual opportunity for men to train themselves. If words mean what they say, then Harvard men are desirous of doing their utmost part in the defence of the country. No greater need, and no greater occasion, may arise. Such training involves slight sacrifice. On the contrary, it will give each man keen and intensely interesting knowledge of that great beast of war, the battleship of the first fleet...
...supply that machine. America until now has been living off her vast natural resources without much regard or thought to the future. If we can manage to become a scientifically economic nation in the time of peace--which means a radical change in the present conditions--then I say we will be on the true road to a sound and lasting preparedness...
...crisis with Germany has taken place, the pacifists, headed by Mr. Bryan, have come to the fore, sporting a veritable menagery of peace-doves and soft drinks. I have talked with every advocate of pacifism that I could get close enough to on the street and they all say that, in the President's place, they would have applauded Germany for her latest move and rejoiced that the war was at last on a fair basis. I got several of them to endorse the statement that their lives were more valuable than their honor or their moral welfare. "There would...
...say you prefer life and the "pursuit of happiness" to the "dictates of humanity" and national honor. What one of you is there to whom the honor of your women is less dear than their lives? And yet you would give a veiled compliment to their sex by calling your country "she". What one of you is there who dares deny the open insult of Germany's defiance? What pacifist would have saved his own life on the Lusitania, to let a child and mother drown? And yet you say "life before honor...