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... feel at liberty any longer to stand inactively by while it becomes daily more and more evident that no real prog- ress is being made towards the establishment of a govern- ment at the City of Mexico which the country will obey and ...
... feel at liberty any longer to stand inactively by while it becomes daily more and more evident that no real prog- ress is being made towards the establishment of a govern- ment at the City of Mexico which the country will obey and ...
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... feel that they have the right to press . We are seeking to counsel Mexico for her own good and in the interest of her own peace , and not for any other purpose whatever . The Government of the United States would deem itself discredited ...
... feel that they have the right to press . We are seeking to counsel Mexico for her own good and in the interest of her own peace , and not for any other purpose whatever . The Government of the United States would deem itself discredited ...
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... feel the more solemnly bound to go to the utmost length of patience and forbearance in this painful and anxious business . The steady pressure of moral force will before many days break the barriers of pride and prejudice down , and we ...
... feel the more solemnly bound to go to the utmost length of patience and forbearance in this painful and anxious business . The steady pressure of moral force will before many days break the barriers of pride and prejudice down , and we ...
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... feel as we feel the molding power of history itself . The men who sat in this hall , to whom we now look back with a touch of deep sentiment , were men of flesh and blood , face to face with extremely difficult problems . The popu ...
... feel as we feel the molding power of history itself . The men who sat in this hall , to whom we now look back with a touch of deep sentiment , were men of flesh and blood , face to face with extremely difficult problems . The popu ...
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... feel to - day the compulsion of these men , the com- pulsion of examples which were set up in this place . And of what do their examples remind us ? They re- mind us not merely of public service but of public service shot through with ...
... feel to - day the compulsion of these men , the com- pulsion of examples which were set up in this place . And of what do their examples remind us ? They re- mind us not merely of public service but of public service shot through with ...
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Page 339 - ... two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.
Page 281 - We are at the beginning of an age in which it will be insisted that the same standards of conduct and of responsibility for wrong done shall be observed among nations and their governments that are observed among the individual citizens of civilized states.
Page 360 - A free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims, based upon a strict observance of the principle that in determining all such questions of sovereignty the interests of the populations concerned must have equal weight with the equitable claims of the government whose title is to be determined.
Page xiv - We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make. We are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind.
Page xii - Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic power and to set up amongst the really free and self-governed peoples of the world such a concert of purpose and of action as will henceforth insure the observance of those principles.
Page 274 - That the state of war between the United States and the Imperial German Government which has thus been thrust upon the United States is hereby formally declared; and that the President be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to employ the entire naval and military forces of the United States...
Page 250 - No peace can last, or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principle that governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed, and that no right anywhere exists to hand peoples about from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were property.
Page 276 - I was for a little while unable to believe that such things would in fact be done by any Government that had hitherto subscribed to the humane practices of civilized nations.
Page 372 - Third, every territorial settlement involved in this war must be made in the interest and for the benefit of the populations concerned, and not as a part of any mere adjustment or compromise of claims amongst rival states...
Page 359 - What we demand in this war, therefore, is nothing peculiar to ourselves. It is that the world be made fit and safe to live in; and particularly that it be made safe for every peace-loving nation which, like our own, wishes to live its own life, determine its own institutions, be assured of justice and fair dealing by the other peoples of the world as against force and selfish aggression.