The Messages and Papers of Woodrow Wilson, Volumen1Review of Reviews Corporation, 1924 - 1251 páginas "In these volumes will be found the diplomatic correspondence that preceded our decision to enter the war, and the subsequent statements made by Mr. Wilson to Congress and the country which resulted in our adoption of the status of belligerency."--Page xix. |
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... circumstances , Mr. Wilson determined to appeal di- rectly to the country in a series of speeches which was to take him all the way to the Pacific Coast . He had been seriously ill while in Paris with an attack of the prevailing ...
... circumstances , Mr. Wilson determined to appeal di- rectly to the country in a series of speeches which was to take him all the way to the Pacific Coast . He had been seriously ill while in Paris with an attack of the prevailing ...
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... circumstances of almost incomparable dignity and impor- tance , the speaking tour of Mr. Wilson is without parallel in the political annals of our own or any other country . The report of that tour in these volumes occupies several ...
... circumstances of almost incomparable dignity and impor- tance , the speaking tour of Mr. Wilson is without parallel in the political annals of our own or any other country . The report of that tour in these volumes occupies several ...
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... circumstance of our industrial development was what it is to - day . Our task is to square them with the actual facts . The sooner that is done the sooner we shall escape from suffering from the facts and the sooner our men of business ...
... circumstance of our industrial development was what it is to - day . Our task is to square them with the actual facts . The sooner that is done the sooner we shall escape from suffering from the facts and the sooner our men of business ...
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... circumstances are to have at hand and ready for use the instrumentalities and conveniences of free enterprise which independent men need when acting on their own initiative . It is not enough to strike the shackles from business . The ...
... circumstances are to have at hand and ready for use the instrumentalities and conveniences of free enterprise which independent men need when acting on their own initiative . It is not enough to strike the shackles from business . The ...
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... circumstances forbid us to postpone . I should be recreant to my deepest convictions of public obli- gation did I not press it upon you with solemn and urgent insistence . The principles upon which we should act are also clear . The ...
... circumstances forbid us to postpone . I should be recreant to my deepest convictions of public obli- gation did I not press it upon you with solemn and urgent insistence . The principles upon which we should act are also clear . The ...
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Página 380 - 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...
Página 36 - I want to take this occasion to say that the United States will never again seek one additional foot of territory by conquest. She will devote herself to showing that she knows how to make honorable and fruitful use of the territory she has, and she must regard it as one of the duties of friendship to see that from no quarter are material interests made superior to human liberty and national opportunity.
Página 375 - I hope, so far as they can equitably be sustained by the present generation, by well conceived taxation. I say sustained so far as may be equitable by taxation because it seems to me that it would be most unwise to base the credits which will now be necessary entirely on money borrowed. It is our duty, I most respectfully urge, to protect our people so far as we may against the very serious hardships and evils which would be likely to arise out of the inflation which would be produced by vast loans.
Página 343 - He takes the liberty of calling attention to the fact that the objects which the statesmen of the belligerents on both sides have in mind in this war are virtually the same, as stated in general terms to their own people and to the world.
Página 10 - It is of serious interest to the country that the people at large should have no lobby and be voiceless in these matters, while great bodies of astute men seek to create an artificial opinion and to overcome the interests of the public for their private profit.
Página 375 - 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...
Página 380 - It will be all the easier for us to conduct ourselves as belligerents in a high spirit of right and fairness because we act without animus, not in enmity towards a people or with the desire to bring any injury or disadvantage upon them, but only in armed opposition to an irresponsible government which has thrown aside all considerations of humanity and of right and is running amuck.
Página 55 - President shall prescribe any arms or munitions of war from any place in the United States to such country until otherwise ordered by the President or by Congress.
Página 251 - In the meantime the very value which this Government sets upon the long and unbroken friendship between the people and Government of the United States and the people and Government of the German nation impels it to press very solemnly upon the Imperial German Government the necessity for a scrupulous observance of neutral rights in this critical matter. Friendship itself prompts it to say to the Imperial Government that repetition by the commanders of German naval vessels of acts in contravention...
Página 370 - GENTLEMEN OF THE CONGRESS, — I have called the Congress into extraordinary session because there are serious, very serious, choices of policy to be made, and made immediately, which it was neither right nor constitutionally permissible that I should assume the responsibility of making.