Foreign Policy of President Wilson: Messages, Addresses and Papers |
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Página viii
... seek no indemnities for ourselves , no material com- pensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make . We are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind . We shall be satisfied when those rights have been made as secure as the ...
... seek no indemnities for ourselves , no material com- pensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make . We are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind . We shall be satisfied when those rights have been made as secure as the ...
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... seek to do in fulfillment of its obligation to Mexico herself , as a friend and neigh- bor , and to American citizens whose lives and vital inter- ests are daily affected by the distressing conditions which now obtain beyond our ...
... seek to do in fulfillment of its obligation to Mexico herself , as a friend and neigh- bor , and to American citizens whose lives and vital inter- ests are daily affected by the distressing conditions which now obtain beyond our ...
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... seeking to counsel Mexico for her own good and in the interest of her own peace , and not for any other purpose whatever . The Government of the United States would deem itself discredited if it had any selfish or ulterior purpose in ...
... seeking to counsel Mexico for her own good and in the interest of her own peace , and not for any other purpose whatever . The Government of the United States would deem itself discredited if it had any selfish or ulterior purpose in ...
Página 13
... seek more than their own advantage and interest . We have stumbled upon many unhappy circum- stances in the hundred years that have gone by since the event that we are celebrating . Almost all of them have come from self - centered men ...
... seek more than their own advantage and interest . We have stumbled upon many unhappy circum- stances in the hundred years that have gone by since the event that we are celebrating . Almost all of them have come from self - centered men ...
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... seek . I wonder if you realize , I wonder if your imagina- tions have been filled with the significance of the tides of commerce . Your governor alluded in very fit and striking terms to the voyage of Columbus , but Columbus took his ...
... seek . I wonder if you realize , I wonder if your imagina- tions have been filled with the significance of the tides of commerce . Your governor alluded in very fit and striking terms to the voyage of Columbus , but Columbus took his ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 297 - ... two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.
Página 109 - That government is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit, protection and security of the people, nation or community; of all the various modes and forms of government, that is best, which is capable of producing the greatest degree of happiness and safety, and is most effectually secured against the danger of maladministration ; and...
Página viii - We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make. We are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind.
Página vi - 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 and to set up amongst the really free and self-governed peoples of the world such a concert of purpose and of action as will henceforth insure the observance of those principles.
Página 326 - Self-determination" is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
Página 231 - 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.
Página 204 - 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.
Página 236 - It was a war determined upon as wars used to be determined upon in the old, unhappy days when peoples were nowhere consulted by their rulers and wars were provoked and waged in the interest of dynasties or of little groups of ambitious men who were accustomed to use their fellow men as pawns and tools.
Página 73 - You cannot become thorough Americans if you think of yourselves in groups. America does not consist of groups. A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American...
Página 369 - No principle of general law is more universally acknowledged, than the perfect equality of nations. Russia and Geneva have equal rights. It results from this equality, that no one can rightfully impose a rule on another. Each legislates for itself, but its legislation can operate on itself alone.