Crossword-Solution: BODYPOLITIC 11 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 21

Indeed, it is a sign of marked political weakness in anycommonwealth if the people tend to be carried away by mere oratory, if theytend to value words in and for themselves, as divorced from the deeds for whichthey are supposed to stand. The phrase-maker, the phrase-monger, the readytalker, however great his power, whose speech does not make for courage, sobriety, and right understanding, is simply a noxious element in the bodypolitic, and it speaks ill for the public if he h…

You. What is the moral difference, ifany, between the soldier and the civilian?""The difference," I answered carefully, "lies in the field of civicvirtue. A soldier accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the bodypolitic of which he is a member, defending it, if need be, with his life. The civilian does not.