We have been proud of our industrial achievements, but we have not hitherto stopped thoughtfully enough to count the human cost, the cost of lives snuffed out, of energies overtaxed and broken, the fearful physical and spiritual cost to the men and women... The American Year Book - Page 14edited by - 1914Full view - About this book
| Emory Elliott - History - 1988 - 1312 pages
...in Wilson's inaugural address caught the cultural as well as political meaning of the "New Freedom": We have been proud of our industrial achievements,...hitherto stopped thoughtfully enough to count the cost ... of lives snuffed out, of energies overtaxed and broken, the fearful physical and spiritual... | |
| Bernard L. Brock, Robert Lee Scott, James W. Chesebro - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1989 - 524 pages
...in new lights, to constitute ourselves as a people in new ways. In 1913, for example, Wilson said: "We have been proud of our industrial achievements,...stopped thoughtfully enough to count the human cost. ... We have come now to the sober second thought" (p. 200). In 1865, Lincoln compelled listeners to... | |
| Richard Carter - Social Science - 1992 - 356 pages
...acknowledged that much remained to be done. "We have been proud of our industrial achievements," he said, "but we have not hitherto stopped thoughtfully enough to count the human cost . . . the fearful physical and spiritual cost to the men and women and children upon whom the dead weight and... | |
| Kenneth Hilton - Education - 1999 - 138 pages
...of what we might have used, and have not stopped to conserve the exceeding bounty of nature. . . . We have been proud of our industrial achievements, but we have not . . . stopped thoughtfully enough to count the human costs. . . . [Our] great Government we loved has... | |
| Woodrow Wilson - United States - 2002 - 332 pages
...worthless and impotent, scorning to be careful, shamefully prodigal as well as admirably efficient. We have been proud of our industrial achievements,...children upon whom the dead weight and burden of it alt has fallen pitilessly the years through. The groans and agony of it all had not yet reached our... | |
| American Library Association - Library science - 1913 - 524 pages
...individuality. In his inaugural address President Wilson uttered these accusing heart searching words: "We have been proud of our Industrial achievements,...whom the dead weight and burden of it all has fallen without mercy the years through. The groans and agony of it all, the solemn moving undertone of our... | |
| 1913 - 268 pages
...and for children necessary. President Wilson, in his Inaugural Address, speaking of our past, said: " We have been proud of our industrial achievements,...out, of energies over-taxed, and broken, the fearful spiritual cost to the men, women and children upon whom the dead weight and burden of it all has fallen... | |
| House painting - 1916 - 748 pages
...Health to adopt measures that will tend to the preservation of health and the prolongation of life. "We have been proud of our industrial achievements,...count the human cost, the cost of lives snuffed out. Lost ideals of energies overtaxed and 'broken, the fearful physical, and spiritual cost to the men... | |
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