It is: (1) We must maintain our own self-respect and safety.

If we submit to too many insults, _that_ will in time bring Germany against us.
We've got to show at some time that we don't believe, either, in the efficacy of Sunday-School resolves for peace--that we are neither Daughters of the Dove of Peace nor Sons of the Olive Branch, and (2) About nagging and forever presenting technical legal points as lawyers do to confuse juries--the point is the point of efficiency.
If we do that, we can't carry our main points.

I find it harder and harder to get answers now to important questions because we ask so many unimportant and nagging ones.
I've no sentiment--perhaps not enough.

My gushing days are gone, if I ever had 'em.

The cutting-out of the "100 years of peace" oratory, etc., etc., was one of the blessings of the war.