Gaslight Sonatas by Fannie Hurst
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"... there's not a man here before me can afford to shirk his duty to his country. The slacker can't get along without his country, but his country can very easily get along without him." Cheers. "The poor exemption boobs are already running for doctors' certificates and marriage licenses, but even if they get by with it--and it is ninety-nine to one they won't--they can't run away from their own degradation and shame." "Come on, Jimmie." "Wait." "Men of America, for every one of you who tries to dodge his duty to his country there is a yellow streak somewhere underneath the hide of you. Women of America, every one of you that helps to foster the spirit of cowardice in your particular man or men is helping to make a coward. It's the cowards and the quitters and the slackers and dodgers that need this war more than the patriotic ones who are willing to buckle on and go! "Don't be a buttonhole patriot! A government that is good enough to live under is good enough to fight under!" Cheers. "If there is any reason on earth has manifested itself for this devastating and terrible war it is that it has been a maker of men. |
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