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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... duty to see that " no false or mistaken interpretation is put upon them and no possible effort is omitted to realize them " ; and , continuing , he declared : " It is now my duty to play my full part in making good what they [ the ...
... duty to see that " no false or mistaken interpretation is put upon them and no possible effort is omitted to realize them " ; and , continuing , he declared : " It is now my duty to play my full part in making good what they [ the ...
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... duty is to cleanse , to recon- sider , to restore , to correct the evil without impairing the good , to purify and humanize every process of our com- mon life without weakening or sentimentalizing it . There has been something crude and ...
... duty is to cleanse , to recon- sider , to restore , to correct the evil without impairing the good , to purify and humanize every process of our com- mon life without weakening or sentimentalizing it . There has been something crude and ...
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... duty . The firm basis of government is justice , not pity . These are matters of justice . There can be no equality or oppor- tunity , the first essential of justice in the body politic , if men and women and children be not shielded in ...
... duty . The firm basis of government is justice , not pity . These are matters of justice . There can be no equality or oppor- tunity , the first essential of justice in the body politic , if men and women and children be not shielded in ...
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... duty was laid upon the party now in power at the recent elections which it ought to perform promptly , in order that ... duties must be altered . They must be changed to meet the radical al- teration in the conditions of our economic ...
... duty was laid upon the party now in power at the recent elections which it ought to perform promptly , in order that ... duties must be altered . They must be changed to meet the radical al- teration in the conditions of our economic ...
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... duties laid upon articles which we do not , and probably can not , produce , therefore , and the duties laid upon luxuries and merely for the sake of the revenues they yield , the object of the tariff duties henceforth laid must be ...
... duties laid upon articles which we do not , and probably can not , produce , therefore , and the duties laid upon luxuries and merely for the sake of the revenues they yield , the object of the tariff duties henceforth laid must be ...
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action affairs America arms army Austria-Hungary believe belligerent bill blockade British circumstances commerce Commission confidence Congress constitutional coöperation counsel deal Declaration of London declared Democratic Democratic party duty eight-hour day enemy enterprise ernment fact Federal Reserve Act Federal Trade Commission feel fellow citizens fighting force foreign gentlemen going heart honor hope Huerta humanity Imperial German Government Imperial Government industrial interest Interstate Commerce Commission justice League of Nations legislation liberty lives Lusitania Majesty's Government mankind matter means ment Mexico nations naval Navy necessary neutral neutral countries never ourselves party peace political practice present President Wilson principles proposed purpose question ready regard Republican seas seek selfish serve ships speak spirit stand submarine tariff things thought tion trade United vessels Victoriano Huerta warfare Washington whole WILSON'S ADDRESS WOODROW WILSON
Pasajes populares
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.