Word: citizens
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Roumania and to become one of the members of a league to enforce peace. How can we enforce peace or bring about a lasting freedom for those countries if we do not have an adequate army? If we should adopt the Swiss system we would have a large citizen army which could be called into action at any moment...
...danger in this year's election comes from the fact that so few of the men are back. Unless every man votes we will not have a representative election. It is our duty to vote in class as well as national elections for we are the citizen body of Harvard...
...armies except the army that ran away before the Germans in Russia recently--is a symbol of the discipline without which an army is an ungovernable mob which a handful of real soldiers can put to rout. The young ignoramus who writes from Camp asks, "Why should an American citizen humble himself to every stripe or collar mark that indicates a grade higher in the service than himself?" The answer is that he does not humble himself. The salute is a mark of respect not given to the individual but to the rank, therefore to the system of which...
...there anyone who doubts the soundness of an investment endorsed by every business man of the nation? The President has clearly set forth each citizen's duty. Shall we then wait for the first casualty lists to bring the war to our door...
...what a pity if the treasury must become a knee-dropping suppliant to the American public. There is a higher obligation than self which confronts the true citizen. In Senator Lodge's words it is this...