America 5
- Intellectuals who backed the war sided with the least democratic forces in American life
- One must choose between the war and America's promise, because the war will impoverish it
Randolph Bourne
American essayist (1886 to 1918); author of War and the Intellectuals.
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What Randolph Bourne says most about
government 4
- In war every government, democratic or autocratic, crushes whatever deflects energy from victory
- Modern war needs no patriotism, only the people's toleration of the fighting
democracy 2
- An endless war for democracy would crush a nation's most precious thing, its youth's idealism
- Prolonging the war delays German democracy by making Germans cling to their military leaders