Word: steadfast
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This change it is that France, unswerving in her devotion and steadfast in her hope, is quite unable to comprehend. Like the rest of the world she has been assuming all along that Alsace was to go to her gladly and as a matter of course. The awakening will be bitter. Sentiments long cherished are hard to forget, but the cold fact remains that the restored provinces care little more for France than they do for Germany. That is the sorrow of it for France...
...better to have one brave fool than a hundred cowards that chant wisdom by rote; and a steadfast man is not to be compared with a throng of popular clamorers. Only from struggle may there arise strength, and only from opposition the truth...
...acting as a mob and by night, insanely and brutally took vengeance on one man, were inspired by a spirit of patriotism which is as false as it is evil. Not by violence may the great democracy be made steadfast. They, ignorant of the meaning of liberty, used the methods of violence to defend an ideal which they could not comprehend...
That the Harvard Club of Boston pledges its steadfast and loyal support to the President of the United States of America in his leadership of the people to assert their rights on land and sea, and to uphold national honor and international justice...
...among nations and that station, I hold, will be irretrievably impaired if Woodrow Wilson retains his seat in Washington. His foreign policy has been puerile, spasmodic and spineless. Hughes can do no worse. I am sure he will do far better, his whole past record has been one of steadfast and manly adherence to principle...