Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Captain Overton of Yale will defend his title in the 1,000-yard race...
...main value of retaliation is to lessen injuries by discouraging them. But a war aiming to defend American lives or to establish international law seems valueless to me because I think it would defeat its own ends. Another use of retaliation is to win prestige. I myself put faith in other expedients than war to gain a less precarious and less costly prestige. But war can be strongly argued on the ground of prestige and also on the premise that the Allies cause is our cause. To wage war as a point of honor, however, seems...
...people as we are fighting and they are fighting on the side of humanity. Should we smugly hold ourselves to be too good to fight by their sides? We are not the chosen people of humanity, though if we were would we not be under even greater obligations to defend...
...will roast the pig, and, if so, whether by setting fire to the house. Similarly, the first question for the American people to settle is, "What are the objects of a war?" They may be any of a myriad of things. Assume that the principal object is to defend American lives on the seas. Then we must ask, "Shall we set fire to the American mansion?" An answer depends on the answers given several other questions. Will the pig be roasted by burning the house, or burned to ashes? Is it necessary to burn the house or are there less...
...repeat these questions so as to fit the war issue. Will war defend American lives on the seas or destroy them? Are there no alternatives which will more effectively defend American lives on the seas and with less damage to the lives and institutions on land? Suppose there are not. Then are lives on the seas more precious than the lives and activities on land, which would be burned up by war? Against sea rights we must set the rights of those who stay at home to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." We must remember that much...