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... thought and of our lives , have altered their aspect as we have lat- terly looked critically upon them , with fresh , awakened eyes ; have dropped their disguises and shown themselves alien and sinister . Some new things , as we look ...
... thought and of our lives , have altered their aspect as we have lat- terly looked critically upon them , with fresh , awakened eyes ; have dropped their disguises and shown themselves alien and sinister . Some new things , as we look ...
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... thought- fully enough to count the human cost , the cost of lives snuffed out , of energies overtaxed and broken , the fearful physical and spiritual cost to the men and women and children upon whom the dead weight and burden of it all ...
... thought- fully enough to count the human cost , the cost of lives snuffed out , of energies overtaxed and broken , the fearful physical and spiritual cost to the men and women and children upon whom the dead weight and burden of it all ...
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... thought . The scales of heedlessness have fallen from our eyes . We have made up our minds to square every process of our national life again with the standard we so proudly set up at the beginning and have always carried at our hearts ...
... thought . The scales of heedlessness have fallen from our eyes . We have made up our minds to square every process of our national life again with the standard we so proudly set up at the beginning and have always carried at our hearts ...
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... thought that they needed in order to maintain a practically exclusive market as against the rest of the world . Consciously or un- consciously , we have built up a set of privileges and ex- emptions from competition behind which it was ...
... thought that they needed in order to maintain a practically exclusive market as against the rest of the world . Consciously or un- consciously , we have built up a set of privileges and ex- emptions from competition behind which it was ...
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... thought . If you think too much about being re - elected , it is very difficult to be worth re - electing . You are so apt to forget that the comparatively small number of persons , numerous as they seem to be when they swarm , 30 ...
... thought . If you think too much about being re - elected , it is very difficult to be worth re - electing . You are so apt to forget that the comparatively small number of persons , numerous as they seem to be when they swarm , 30 ...
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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...