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"Less suffering than if we went to war carelessly for a long campaign than if we allowed sentiment to interfere with intellect." "I like your energy, your will!" said the premier admiringly. "And about the declaration of war? We shall time that to your purpose." "Declarations of war before striking, by nations taking the aggressive, are a disadvantage," Westerling explained.
There was an aggressive sparkle in Tony's eyes. "People are talking. I heard them last night when you were dancing with him. It hurts. Alan Massey isn't the kind of a man for a girl like you to flirt with." "Stuff and nonsense, Dicky! Any kind of a man is the kind for a girl to flirt with, if she keeps her head." "But Tony, honestly, this Massey hasn't a good reputation." "How do you know?"
The trouble with Lou is that he is tricky, and his neighbors have found out that, as Ivar says, he has not a fox's face for nothing. Politics being the natural field for such talents, he neglects his farm to attend conventions and to run for county offices. Lou's wife, formerly Annie Lee, has grown to look curiously like her husband. Her face has become longer, sharper, more aggressive.
Advocates of the former may be challenged to produce from naval history any instance of local naval defence succeeding against the assaults of an actively aggressive navy. In the late war between Japan and Russia the Russian local defence failed completely. In the last case, a class of vessel like that which had failed in local defence was used successfully, because offensively, by the Japanese.
As in all men of his type, our manifold nature was so marked in him that he was like several different men rolled into one. When he had exhausted himself in the character of the most pugnacious, aggressive, and sanguine of reformers, he rested himself as a Pessimist and Nirvanist.
Now, the central point in the study of Germany under the present Kaiser is the naval programme for over-seas conquest, which was originated entirely by the present Kaiser. It was he and no other who aimed to turn defensive Germany into aggressive Germany. He has been the author from the beginning of the entire naval programme. Such a plan must take cunning and strategy covering years.
It depended on the circumstances of a small community, long engaged in a struggle for existence with powerful and aggressive neighbours, the Latin, the Etruscan, the Samnite, and the Gaul; entering in turn, when its own safety had been secured, on a career of conquest, still in a certain sense defensive, since every neighbour was in those days an enemy; and continuing to task to the utmost the citizen's devotion to the State, the virtues of command and obedience necessary to victory, and the frugality necessary to supply the means of great national efforts; while luxury was kept at bay, though the means of indulging it had begun to flow in, by the check of national danger and the counter-attraction of military glory.
The purchase and sale of the confiscated lands, the national domain which furnished a slender security for the national debt and depreciated bonds, had enriched thousands of the vulgar sort. The newly rich lost their balance and their stolidity, becoming as giddy and frivolous and aggressive as the worst.
It had been suddenly transformed from a house of hope to a house of sorrow, a house of woe. The pastor of the church was the Rev. Frederick A. Noble. He was one of the most eloquent and learned divines in the city fearless, forcible and aggressive the Henry Ward Beecher of the Northwest. President Lincoln was his ideal statesman. The members of the House of Hope were intensely patriotic.
There was courage in his own heart, and he had been reared in too stern a school to fear hardships. In 1740, Frederick received his dying father's blessing, and in the same year the Emperor, Charles VI, left his daughter, Maria Theresa, to struggle with an aggressive European neighbour.
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