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... means easy to combine honesty and efficiency ; and yet it is absolutely necessary , in order to do any work really worth doing . It is not hard , while sitting in one's study , to devise admirable plans for the betterment of politics ...
... means easy to combine honesty and efficiency ; and yet it is absolutely necessary , in order to do any work really worth doing . It is not hard , while sitting in one's study , to devise admirable plans for the betterment of politics ...
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... means which should make it abhorred and despised by every honorable man . One section of the community dei- fies as " smartness " the kind of trickery which en- ables a man without conscience to succeed in the financial or political ...
... means which should make it abhorred and despised by every honorable man . One section of the community dei- fies as " smartness " the kind of trickery which en- ables a man without conscience to succeed in the financial or political ...
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... mean and sordid as any in the world , and that no bandit community of the Middle Ages can have led a more unlovely life than would be the life of men to whom trade and manufactures were everything , and to whom such words as national ...
... mean and sordid as any in the world , and that no bandit community of the Middle Ages can have led a more unlovely life than would be the life of men to whom trade and manufactures were everything , and to whom such words as national ...
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... mean a great deal . Nor do they show any tendency to lose their sig- nificance . At present , treason , like adultery , ranks as one of the worst of all possible crimes . One may fall very short of treason and yet be an undesirable ...
... mean a great deal . Nor do they show any tendency to lose their sig- nificance . At present , treason , like adultery , ranks as one of the worst of all possible crimes . One may fall very short of treason and yet be an undesirable ...
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... means idleness is a curse to the community , and in so far as its members distinguish themselves chiefly by aping the worst - not the best - traits of similar people across the water , they become both comic and True Americanism 41.
... means idleness is a curse to the community , and in so far as its members distinguish themselves chiefly by aping the worst - not the best - traits of similar people across the water , they become both comic and True Americanism 41.
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Page 50 - We Americans can only do our allotted task well if we face it stead3 VOL. I. ily and bravely, seeing but not fearing the dangers. Above all we must stand shoulder to shoulder, not asking as to the ancestry or creed of our comrades, but only demanding that they be in very truth Americans, and that we all work together, heart, hand, and head, for the honor and the greatness of our common country.
Page 287 - All of us lift our heads higher because those of our countrymen whose trade it is to meet danger have met it well and bravely. All of us are poorer for every base or ignoble deed done by an American, for every instance of selfishness or weakness or folly on the part of the people as a whole. We are all worse off when any of us fails at any point in his duty toward the State in time of peace, or his duty toward the State in time of war. If ever we had to meet defeat at the hands of a foreign foe,...
Page 283 - Asia, should determine to assert its position in those lands wherein we feel that our influence should be supreme, there is but one way in which we can effectively interfere. Diplomacy is utterly useless where there is no force behind it ; the diplomat is the servant, not the master, of the soldier.
Page 48 - But I wish to be distinctly understood on one point. Americanism is a question of spirit, conviction, and purpose, not of creed or birthplace.
Page 25 - There is not in the world a more ignoble character than the mere money-getting American, insensible to every duty, regardless of every principle, bent only on amassing a fortune, and putting his fortune only to the basest uses — whether these uses be to speculate in stocks and wreck railroads himself, or to allow his son to lead a life of foolish and expensive idleness and gross debauchery, or to purchase some scoundrel of high social position, foreign or native, for his daughter.
Page 265 - ... train. The truth of the maxim is so obvious to every man of really farsighted patriotism that its mere statement seems trite and useless, and it is not over-creditable to either our intelligence or our love of country that there should be, as there is, need to dwell upon and amplify such a truism. In this country there is not the slightest danger of an over-development of warlike spirit, and there never has been any such danger. In all our history there has never been a time when preparedness...
Page 253 - The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife. One is as worthless a creature as the other.
Page 34 - Americanism" can be used to express the antithesis of what is unwholesome and undesirable. In the first place we wish to be broadly American and national, as opposed to being local or sectional. We do not wish, in politics, in literature, or in art, to develop that unwholesome parochial spirit, that over-exaltation of the little community at the expense of the great nation, which produces what has been described as the patriotism of the village, the patriotism of the belfry.
Page 47 - Muhlenbergs onward; but those who did not become Americanized form to the present day an unimportant body, of no significance in American existence. So it is with the Irish, who gave to Revolutionary annals such names as Carroll and Sullivan, and to the Civil War men like Sheridan...
Page 27 - To men of a certain kind, trade and property are far more sacred than life or honor, of far more consequence than the great thoughts and lofty emotions, which alone make a nation mighty. They believe, with a faith almost touching in its utter feebleness, that "the Angel of Peace draped in a garment of untaxed calico...