Word: conquests
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...line of his phalanges with a buffer of pugnacious elephants. On each elephant was a wild-eyed son of Japhet with a sharp goad and a rebel yell. The goad tickled the elephant's hide, the rebel yell tickled his musical sensibilities. He became imbued with the spirit of conquest and charged like a young Juggernaut or a Woolworth tower on wheels against...
...will be fortunate, it will be fortunate for Russia and the world, if no Napoleon arises, mad for conquest in the name of liberty...
...German towns are destroyed in some wanton and tragedically useless way, it will not be the airmen who manned Germany's raiding machines who will be punished. It will not be those stern minds which ordered the raid, nor the nourishers of that fierce policy of conquest which has led Germany on through the ruin of nations and the ruin of our frail human morality to the goal for which she would almost pay her life. It is not the workers of evil who would suffer by any scheme of revenge that might be planned...
Marshal Joffre will be honored at Harvard as a man who has done great things. His fame is not the fame born of conquest nor ambition. La Patrie called him when her life seemed failing before that first terrible iron rush of the picked troops of Germany. And Joffre beat those troops back from before the very gates of Paris. It takes bravery of a finer kind than that demanded even of the sub-officer who leads a charge to vision victory when that cause for which one fights seems foredoomed to defeat. It takes bravery and determination against overwhelming...
...that the United States have entered the war. Let us not forget this purpose, even in the time of greatest bitterness. The hideous thraldom of militarism and junkerism, of Hapsburg and Hohenzollern, can no longer be endured. The age of Caesars and Napoleons has gone. German dreams of world conquest are an anachronism, and to safeguard progress we must defeat the German Army. But let us remember, paradoxical as it may seem, that in doing so we are helping to liberate the real Germany...