Word: us
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have reached a period in the world's history when it must be recognized that if we are to maintain peace we must be prepared to defend ourselves. Let us not forget that as the nation is, so are its governments, its public service, its army and its navy...
...must realize that we owe our present and somewhat false sense of security to England's navy, but England is at war with the most up-to-date, wide-awake, and militarily progressive nation on the globe, and it would not be giving the nation which has already astonished us with such marvelous inventions in artillery, due credit to presume that the big ships tied up in Kiel will remain outclassed in firing range or that their engineers are overlooking their opportunities...
...advocate a tremendous navy,--one large enough alone to repel any foe,--for we should be going to a most foolish expenditure, and of what value is a whole fleet when some new invention is suddenly thrust upon us...
...serious menace does not lie in the thought of the CRIMSON. It is the German menace which alarms. That cannot come from Canada, I take it; can it come from Mexico? I confess that I am unable to see how Germany alone can undertake any distant operations against us. But there may be new alliances! So there may be. And we might be drawn into some war in the future...
...never be again,--ethical lines of cleavage. Are we more nearly divine than the other nations, that we trust ourselves to do always the right thing? No, indeed; moreover, our national desire to back righteousness varies inversely as our military power to do that which is good for us! Proof: Germany. Diplomatic history shows that the United States breaks its agreements when "essential to our vital interests." The only effective way of fighting the evils in the world is no longer quixotically to "teach a lesson" to other nations' evildoers, but to turn our attention to the organized viciousness...