Awake! America: Object Lessons and WarningsMoffat, Yard, 1918 - 197 страница |
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... losses of life , or lightened our own financial burdens , by so much as one American soldier or one twenty - dollar bill ! Our folly has been a colossal injury to our best friends and defenders , and of no earthly benefit to 6 AWAKE ...
... losses of life , or lightened our own financial burdens , by so much as one American soldier or one twenty - dollar bill ! Our folly has been a colossal injury to our best friends and defenders , and of no earthly benefit to 6 AWAKE ...
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... loss of American lives , one - tenth of one per cent . was the measure of real wakefulness in America on January 1 , 1916 ! I was watching for preparedness all the time , from Dec. 1 , 1914 , onward , and I think I know the situation ...
... loss of American lives , one - tenth of one per cent . was the measure of real wakefulness in America on January 1 , 1916 ! I was watching for preparedness all the time , from Dec. 1 , 1914 , onward , and I think I know the situation ...
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... loss of 1,198 non - combatant men , women and children , and with characteristic Hun falsity it shows deck guns that were not there . The date shown , May 5 , 1915 , is two days ahead of the event , because the sinking was sched- uled ...
... loss of 1,198 non - combatant men , women and children , and with characteristic Hun falsity it shows deck guns that were not there . The date shown , May 5 , 1915 , is two days ahead of the event , because the sinking was sched- uled ...
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... loss to us and to the world from the awful sleep of this nation in 1915 and 1916. This is a good time to see how that account stands down to date . The task is by no means so impossible as it may look to those who are willing to think ...
... loss to us and to the world from the awful sleep of this nation in 1915 and 1916. This is a good time to see how that account stands down to date . The task is by no means so impossible as it may look to those who are willing to think ...
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... loss of life and national wealth , and that the chances of our being drawn into the whirlpool were as 9 to I. It was the cue of our Congress to do in the winter of 1915 a large portion of what finally was done in the summer of 1917 ...
... loss of life and national wealth , and that the chances of our being drawn into the whirlpool were as 9 to I. It was the cue of our Congress to do in the winter of 1915 a large portion of what finally was done in the summer of 1917 ...
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Страница vi - The world must be made safe for democracy. To such a task we can dedicate our lives and our fortunes, everything that we are, and everything that we have, With the pride of those who know that the day has come when America is privileged to spend her blood and her might for the principles that gave her birth and happiness, and the peace which she has treasured.
Страница 37 - I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past...
Страница 86 - About fifteen years from now my country will start her great war. She will be in Paris in about two months after the commencement of hostilities. Her move on Paris will be but a step to her real object — the crushing of England. Everything will move like clockwork. We will be prepared and others will not be prepared.
Страница 145 - File your bullets' noses flat, poison every well; God decrees your enemies must all go plumb to hell. "Onward Christian soldiers! Blighting all you meet, Trampling human freedom under pious feet Praise the Lord whose dollar sign dupes his favored race, Make the foreign trash respect your bullion brand of grace. Trust in mock salvation, serve as pirates' tools; History will say of you: 'That pack of G d fools.
Страница 92 - Whoever cannot prevail upon himself to approve from the bottom of his heart the sinking of the " Lusitania " — whoever cannot conquer his sense of the gigantic cruelty (ungeheure Grausamkeit) to unnumbered perfectly innocent victims .... and give himself up to honest delight at this victorious exploit of German defensive power — him we judge to be no true German.
Страница vi - We accepted this war, and did not begin it. We accepted it for an object, and when that object is accomplished, the war will end ; and I hope to God it will never end until that object is accomplished.
Страница 145 - Onward, Christian soldiers, rip and tear and smite! Let the gentle Jesus bless your dynamite. Splinter skulls with shrapnel, fertilize the sod; Folks who do not speak your tongue deserve the curse of God. Smash the doors of every home, pretty maidens seize; Use your might and sacred right to treat them as you please.
Страница 92 - ... self-interest ends the real patriotism begins; and its measure is not the loud chest-note of conviction, but selfsacrificing, untiring work in the service of the community, in order gradually to win for the German nature (Wesen) the first place in the world. — PROF. GE PAZAUREK, PKUK, p. 5. 235. Just such a systematic transformation of the world as Augustus effected, Germany must now undertake — but on how much nobler a plan!
Страница 92 - Terrorism is seen to be a relatively gentle procedure, useful to keep in a state of obedience to the masses of the people.
Страница 90 - CHAMBERLAIN, KA, p. 69. 53. The depth of the German spirit displays itself also in respect for morality and discipline. . . . How often, in these days, has the German soldier been subjected to the temptation to treat the inhabitants of foreign countries with violence and brutality. But...