President Wilson's State Papers and Addresses |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 51
Page 58
... vessels engaged in the coastwise trade of the United States from payment of tolls , and to urge upon you the justice , the wisdom , and the large policy of such a repeal with the utmost earnestness of which I am capable . In my own ...
... vessels engaged in the coastwise trade of the United States from payment of tolls , and to urge upon you the justice , the wisdom , and the large policy of such a repeal with the utmost earnestness of which I am capable . In my own ...
Page 74
... vessels or adequate machinery for the survey and charting . We have used old vessels that were not big enough or strong enough and which were so nearly unseaworthy that our inspectors would not have allowed private owners to send them ...
... vessels or adequate machinery for the survey and charting . We have used old vessels that were not big enough or strong enough and which were so nearly unseaworthy that our inspectors would not have allowed private owners to send them ...
Page 131
... vessels we build and intend to build . Part of our problem is the problem of what I may call the mobilization of the resources of the nation at the proper time if it should ever be necessary to mobilize them for national defense . We ...
... vessels we build and intend to build . Part of our problem is the problem of what I may call the mobilization of the resources of the nation at the proper time if it should ever be necessary to mobilize them for national defense . We ...
Page 142
... vessels , eight vessels of special types , and two ammunition ships . This would be a navy fitted to our needs and worthy of our traditions . But armies and instruments of war are only part of what has to be considered if we are to ...
... vessels , eight vessels of special types , and two ammunition ships . This would be a navy fitted to our needs and worthy of our traditions . But armies and instruments of war are only part of what has to be considered if we are to ...
Page 184
... all has it been negligent in recent years . Three years ago there were 182 vessels in commission in that Navy ; there are now 238. Three dreadnoughts and fifteen subor- dinate 184 Presidential Messages , Addresses and State Papers.
... all has it been negligent in recent years . Three years ago there were 182 vessels in commission in that Navy ; there are now 238. Three dreadnoughts and fifteen subor- dinate 184 Presidential Messages , Addresses and State Papers.
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
action affairs America arms army Austria-Hungary believe belligerent bill blockade British circumstances commerce commission common confidence Congress coöperation counsel deal Declaration of London declared defense Democratic Democratic party desire duty eight-hour day enemy enterprise ernment fact feel fellow citizens fighting force foreign freedom gentlemen German Empire going heart honor hope humanity Imperial German Government Imperial Government industrial interest Interstate Commerce Commission justice legislation liberty lives Lusitania Majesty's Government mankind matter means ment Mexico military nations naval Navy necessary neutral neutral countries never ourselves party peace political practice present President Wilson principles proposed purpose question ready regard ROBERT LANSING Russia seas seek selfish serve ships speak spirit stand submarine territory things thought tion trade United vessels Victoriano Huerta warfare Washington whole WILSON'S ADDRESS wish WOODROW WILSON
Popular passages
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...