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America is the accepted spokesman of world democracy, but a chain is no stronger than its weakest link. A doctrine which breaks down at home can hardly be propagated abroad. We have passed the day of the pious slave holder who became so deeply impressed with the plea for foreign missions that he sold one of his slaves to contribute liberally to the cause. If democracy cannot control lawlessness, then democracy is a failure...
...again, flat on my nose. A shell had gone off just behind me, I learned later. I was unhurt save for a little scratch on my head and a great roaring in my ears and a great craziness in my head. So they sent me back along the endless chain of hospitals--this is the 6th--to rest. That is rather a joke, too, the rest part of it, for you no sooner get settled down than you are evacuated. But even so, I've gathered up a lot of sleep and stored it away...
...discipline in close order ought not to be confused with discipline itself. Discipline creates the moral cohesion, which binds together all the members of the same unit, linking in an invisible chain men and officers, so that, in any formation, in any situation, however critical it may be, the soldier follows his leader and entirely submits to his will and inspiration. Precision and snap in close order must be improved in the regiment: we are going to work at it, harder and harder. But the discipline itself, the real and necessary discipline, men already have. ANDRE MORIZE...
...again to the ways of peace, is not readily dislodged. A group of men thrown together lives on gossip, and with proper dramatic instinct, accepts the most improbable gossip as the true. It is foolish to deny idle rumors, for that gives stability to them, and starts a new chain of rumors without...
...sort would endanger the existence of the system by its very appearance of impotence. The military strength of the United States, derived from universal service, would not weaken the movement toward world peace: nay, it would rather strengthen it by mending the weakness of an important link in the chain; and, in addition, the prestige which the United States would enjoy as a result of its power might be sorely needed to prevent the proposed world league from following the principles of the reactionary Holy Alliance...