Word: owes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...world, now and then a man of fine spirit feels that he must go right out and do something to correct them. The spirit that moved Lafayette, Kosciusco and Garibaldi was keenly alive in this young man. The Republic of France will not forget him, and we all owe him a debt of gratitude for doing so much to testify to the desire of some of our countrymen to show an active sympathy...
...better or for worse. It is a mighty responsibility, this thing of determining the future history of the country, and those first voters, boys and girls, who don the habiliments of full-fledged citizenship when they take their first ballots in their hands and step into the voting booths owe in return for the new privilege that hence-forth is to be theirs, all the serious thought that they can bring to bear upon the choice offered to them. Four years ago they were on the threshold of their majority. Today they have crossed it. Four years ago their interest...
...Although Royce has a number of disciples who follow his scheme of thought in its essentials, he has a far larger constituency of those who disagreed with him and yet feel that they owe what is best in their thought to his stimulus...
...previous letter I urged that we owe it both to the public and to ourselves to make clear the reasons for drilling on Sunday. It did not occur to me to say, as your correspondent of yesterday suggests, that the order for Sunday drill was unjust...
...these has been surpassed by the event. They have all been found capable of making the greatest denial of self that men can make; they paid away their own life that the life of their fellows might be happy. To put into words the reverence that we owe to the young who have worked and suffered and died for us is beyond our powers...