The example of America must be a special example. The example of America must be the example not merely of peace because it will not fight, but of peace because peace is the healing and elevating influence of the world and strife is not. There is such... Current History - Page 1231920Full view - About this book
| Humanities - 1926 - 536 pages
...merely of peace because it will not fight but peace because peace is the healing and elevating influence of the world and strife is not. There is such a thing...need to convince others by force that it is right." 20 It is easy to —262— see what was meant here. Just a month before Wilson had expressed the same... | |
| Almanacs, American - 1916 - 888 pages
...peace because it will not fight, but of peace because peace is the healing and elevating influence of the world : and strife is not. There Is such a...need to convince others by force that it is right. An expectant public seized upon the phrase "too proud to fight" as indicative of the determined policy... | |
| Americanization - 1915 - 624 pages
...peace because it will not fight, but of peace because peace is the healing and elevating influence of the world and strife is not. There is such a thing...need to convince others by force that it is right. You have come into this great Nation voluntarily seeking something that we have to give, and all that... | |
| Europe - 1915 - 1376 pages
...peace because it will not fight, but of peace because peace is the healing and elevating influence of the world and strife is not. There is such a thing...need to convince others by force that it is right. So, if you come into this great nation as you have come, voluntarily seeking something that we have... | |
| 1915 - 1102 pages
...peace because it will not fight, but of peace because peace is the healing and elevating influence of the world and strife is not. There is such a thing...need to convince others by force that it is right." These latter phrases have been reported in all parts of the world ; but their application to present... | |
| Europe - 1915 - 1348 pages
...speech carefully, and whaJt seemed to impress him more than anything else was this passage from it: " There is such a thing as a man being too proud to...need to convince others by force that it is right." Asked if he cared to make any comment upon the speech of the President, Mr. Roosevelt said: " I think... | |
| Europe - 1915 - 720 pages
...peace because it will not fight, but of peace because peace is the healing and elevating influence of the world and strife is not. There is such a thing as a man beingtoo pro'.id to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to... | |
| Eugene Clyde Brooks - United States - 1916 - 586 pages
...merely of peace, because it will not fight, but because peace is a healing and elevating influence of the world, and strife is not. There is such a thing...need to convince others by force that it is right." It was the last two sentences especially that attracted attention. The entire address and the occasion... | |
| eugene c. brooks - 1916 - 756 pages
...merely of peace, because it will not fight, but because peace is a healing and elevating influence of the world, and strife is not. There is such a thing...need to convince others by force that it is right.'' It was the last two sentences especially that attracted attention. The entire address and the occasion... | |
| Eric Fisher Wood - United States - 1916 - 254 pages
...hundred delegates here from all parts of the country. Roosevelt after reading Wilson anent the Lusitania. "There is such a thing as a man being too proud to...need to convince others by force that it is right." Asked if he cared to make any comment upon the speech of the President, Mr. Roosevelt said : "I think... | |
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