Word: statesmen
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...fixed in the mind of every young man who proposes to use his citizenship intelligently and conscientiously; neither of these achievements is due to any one class of men, and least of all has the superiority of our political institutions been due to the politician class, or to individual statesmen during the past hundred years. It is American public opinion created by the mutual understanding and purpose of all classes that has adapted our heritage from the stalwarts of the Revolution to our increasing needs...
...these days of constantly shifting opinion, when the one thing our statesmen, politicians, and publicists seem certain of is that they cannot tell what the morrow will bring forth when we turn in vain to our journals of considered comment for any solution of the welter about us, it is with something of relief that we pick up a magazine which may be fairly taken to represent the opinions of such a body of citizens as the graduates of Harvard University. Surely here, if anywhere, we may expect to find sanity and an enlightened conservatism. And we are not disappointed...
...days." They are saying now, "We will concede this, we will grant that: but the institution of private property, or of a sovereign state, or of centralized government, must not be touched." They cheek with the blighting hand of Expediency the clear-cut stroke of Justice. They may be Statesmen, but they can never be thinkers. They may follow: but they never lead. They may pride themselves that though they are not trial breakers they are road-makers; but their greatest fault is that they are usually frightened off the straight and narrow path into tortuous and crooked detours...
There is in Japan a considerable body of opinion which sees in Siberia a most desirable field for expansion. The country is rich in natural resources, and the population is small, in many ways it is the best opportunity now open for the extension of Japanese possessions. Japanese statesmen have on occasion given expression to this ambition...
...Suddenly the students of Peking University demonstrated. In the course of their demonstration they gave a beating to two or three statesmen who were suspected of favoring Japan. Their action sent a thrill through the country. A number of them were arrested and the city was practically put under martial law. The Chancellor of the University, a great liberal leader, resigned under pressure, and the students organized and made definite demands on the government...