To abolish militarism by militarism is like "putting down Drink" by swallowing it!

Just because we abuse their militarism, they affirm and acclaim it; just because we attack their governing class, they rally round it.

The prolonged and repeated raids into Adriatic lands, as far north as Carniola and Carinthia, with which the rest of Bayezid's reign was occupied, brought Ottoman militarism at last to a point, whose eventual attainment might have been foreseen any time in the past century the point at which, strong in the possession of a new arm, artillery, it would assume control of the state.

The main importance, however, of Selim's assumption of the caliphate was that it consecrated Osmanli militarism to a religious endto the original programme of Islam.

Individualism has achieved its inevitable failure; "go as you please" in a world that also contained aggressive militarism, has broken down.

Nothing could be better calculated than this war to strengthen the hold of militarism in Germany, unless it be the attempt of her enemies to destroy her militarism by force.

They love Britain's humanitarian idea, but admire German efficiencyalthough they fear the latter's militarism.

When Germany was winning victory after victory, practically no censorship was needed in the newspapers; the police were tolerant; every German smiled upon every other German; soldiers went forth singing and their trains were gaily decorated with oak leaves; social democracy praised militarism.

One cannot go on for years (and let England, too, remember this) preaching militarism as a means of securing commercial advantage, and then refuse to be answerable for the results to which such a policy may lead.

So long as the Germans cling to the tawdry tradition of the Empire, so long as they profess militarism, so long as they keep up their ridiculous belief in some strange racial superiority to the rest of mankind, it is absurd to expect any co-operative feeling between them and any other great people.

On the other hand, if we reject enforced militarism are we to throw overboard the idea of "national service" altogether?

These French officers have little "side"; none of that toe-the-mark, strutting militarism which the Germans think necessary to efficiency.