Word: strength
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Death is not terrible to him who meets it bravely, wisely and in the strength of his youth. It is always terrible to the coward, the weakling and the fool. Yet, by the very inverse reason, for those who remain the death of a brave man is tragic beyond the poor power of words...
...nation is endeavoring by the current method, which is all that it may use, to wipe out eternally the anarchy of national war. And here, when all our strength is needed for our purpose, a group of egoists strives to undo our endeavor, and to substitute individual anarchy, to reduce us to the law of barbarians...
...sugar jar to the danger involved from investing it in his own nation? Does the canny Maine woodsmen see in the national loan the wild perils of high finance, from which, fate being merciful, he prefers to keep his money? Where is all of New England's strength, promised so often to the last drop of her blood and the last ounce of her treasure? The first drop of her blood has not been asked, nor the hundredth part of her treasure...
...nation has seen the power and the glory of empire, as other nations, some greater and some less, have seen it for centuries, and united it is willing to give the very limit of its strength for empire. It is Persia risen again, without the wisdom of Persia, who had tolerance for subject peoples. It is revolutionary France, without the ideal vision of France. It is Rome...
...Germany wins that which she desires to win, or holds that which she has already won, the bargain will be worth the cost, and that material strength and spiritual elevation which go with conquest will be hers. It will not be her rulers' nor her generals', but the possession of the people which have waged this war with full desire, the possession of the people and of their children...