Word: terrorisms
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...shadow Huns have voices. Ghosts speak, but behind their words is neither substance nor reason, only terror and despair gasping a last few envenomed phrases, phrases lost in the great roar of the machinery they could not stop and the tramp, tramp, tramp of a million men. New York...
...this time we must keep hold of our prospective. Our culture, which is the total of man's thought during dark centuries of confusion and terror, remains beyond this war, beyond a hundred cycles of wars. When it is gone, there is nothing...
This war is not horrible and a thing to be shunned as some old men, enwrapped in terror, would believe. Nor is it a youthful adventure, in which brave young men may aspire to the love-knots and golden spurs of knighthood. It is a hard and rather dirty business which must be carried out in the wisest way, with due attention to its quickest and complete accomplishment. It must be carried out by those who are most able to do so, by those who, having reached an age of manhood, assume the responsibility of defending the older...
Perhaps if a platoon of regulation army top sergeants, weighing seven pud each with their shoes off, were invested with the new ponchos and put at the head of a bayonet charge, they might work the same terror on the modern Cimmerians as did Artaxerxes' now well-known elephants, even without the flapping ears and the heaving trunks. They might, given a good boost, bear their elephant-gray ponchos in a clattering charge all the way to Berlin, and end at one elephantine victory...
...think Germany is to be frightened to weak-kneed terror by some bugaboo of a submarine destroyer? Do we think she will yield to old-womanish fears, and flee in terror from Belgium, when she hears that America is about to set forth to wither her enemies? If words could move Germany, our words would have done so. Words cannot move Germany. She has not a fear of our prowess equal to our confidence...