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... America ; but the best gifts can come to her only if she be ready and free to receive them and to enjoy them honorably . America in particular - America north and south and upon both continents - waits upon the develop- ment of Mexico ...
... America ; but the best gifts can come to her only if she be ready and free to receive them and to enjoy them honorably . America in particular - America north and south and upon both continents - waits upon the develop- ment of Mexico ...
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... America . It is upon no common occasion , therefore , that the United States offers her counsel and assistance . All America cries out for a settlement . A satisfactory settlement seems to us to be conditioned on- ( a ) An immediate ...
... America . It is upon no common occasion , therefore , that the United States offers her counsel and assistance . All America cries out for a settlement . A satisfactory settlement seems to us to be conditioned on- ( a ) An immediate ...
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... America . No charge has been made by any foreign Government accusing us of the above lack of compliance , we are punctually meeting all of our credits , we are still maintaining diplomatic missions cordially accepted in almost all the ...
... America . No charge has been made by any foreign Government accusing us of the above lack of compliance , we are punctually meeting all of our credits , we are still maintaining diplomatic missions cordially accepted in almost all the ...
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... America . He was a man of the people , whose touch had been with them since the day he saw the light first in the ... America . No man can boast that he has lived the life of America , as almost every man who sat in this hall in those ...
... America . He was a man of the people , whose touch had been with them since the day he saw the light first in the ... America . No man can boast that he has lived the life of America , as almost every man who sat in this hall in those ...
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... America , for he did not know that it existed , but to discover the eastern shores of Asia . He set sail for Cathay and stumbled upon America . With that change in the outlook of the world , what happened ? England , that had been at ...
... America , for he did not know that it existed , but to discover the eastern shores of Asia . He set sail for Cathay and stumbled upon America . With that change in the outlook of the world , what happened ? England , that had been at ...
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Page 382 - But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts, for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments...
Page 381 - ... for the ultimate peace of the world and for the liberation of its peoples, the German peoples included; for the rights of nations, great and small, and the privilege of men everywhere to choose their way of life and of obedience. The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
Page 468 - The removal, so far as possible, of all economic barriers and the establishment of an equality of trade conditions among all the nations consenting to the peace and associating themselves for its maintenance.
Page 375 - Our motive will not be revenge or the victorious assertion of the physical might of the nation, but only the vindication of right, of human right, of which we are only a single champion.
Page 470 - The Turkish portions of the present Ottoman Empire should be assured a secure sovereignty, but the other nationalities which are now under Turkish rule should be assured an undoubted security of life and an absolutely unmolested opportunity of autonomous development, and the Dardanelles should be permanently opened as a free passage to the ships and commerce of all nations under international guarantees.
Page 469 - The peoples of Austria-Hungary, whose place among the nations we wish to see safeguarded and assured, should be accorded the freest opportunity of autonomous development.
Page 353 - 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 376 - It will involve the organization and mobilization of all the material resources of the country to supply the materials of war and serve the incidental needs of the nation in the most abundant and yet the most economical and efficient way possible. It will involve the immediate full equipment of the navy in all respects, but particularly in supplying it with the best means of dealing with the enemy's submarines. It will involve the immediate addition to the armed forces of the United States, already...
Page 467 - 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.
Page 376 - I advise that the Congress declare the recent course of the Imperial German Government to be in fact nothing less than war against the government and people of the United States; that it formally accept the status of belligerent which has thus been thrust upon it...