President Wilson's Foreign Policy: Messages, Addresses, PapersOxford University Press, American Branch, 1918 - 424 páginas |
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... , transmitted to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Rep- resentatives , March 4 , 1916 · 392-406 407-410 411-424 INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION President Wilson's messages and addresses , delivered during TABLE OF CONTENTS vii.
... , transmitted to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Rep- resentatives , March 4 , 1916 · 392-406 407-410 411-424 INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION President Wilson's messages and addresses , delivered during TABLE OF CONTENTS vii.
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... HOUSES OF CONGRESS , AUGUST 27 , 1913 A sympathetic yet discriminating critic of Mexico , the late John W. Foster , formerly Secretary of State of the United States , was accustomed to say that the one great and fundamental mistake of ...
... HOUSES OF CONGRESS , AUGUST 27 , 1913 A sympathetic yet discriminating critic of Mexico , the late John W. Foster , formerly Secretary of State of the United States , was accustomed to say that the one great and fundamental mistake of ...
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... House and its offices open upon unoccupied spaces that stretch to the banks of the Potomac and then out into Virginia and on to the heavens themselves , and that as I sit there I can constantly forget Washington and remember the United ...
... House and its offices open upon unoccupied spaces that stretch to the banks of the Potomac and then out into Virginia and on to the heavens themselves , and that as I sit there I can constantly forget Washington and remember the United ...
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... House and its offices open upon unoccupied spaces that stretch to the banks of the Potomac and then out into Virginia and on to the heavens themselves , and that as I sit there I can constantly forget Washington and remember the United ...
... House and its offices open upon unoccupied spaces that stretch to the banks of the Potomac and then out into Virginia and on to the heavens themselves , and that as I sit there I can constantly forget Washington and remember the United ...
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... House and its offices open upon unoccupied spaces that stretch to the banks of the Potomac and then out into Virginia and on to the heavens themselves , and that as I sit there I can constantly forget Washington and remember the United ...
... House and its offices open upon unoccupied spaces that stretch to the banks of the Potomac and then out into Virginia and on to the heavens themselves , and that as I sit there I can constantly forget Washington and remember the United ...
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Página xi - 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 ix - 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 241 - With a profound sense of the solemn and even tragical character of the step I am taking and of the grave responsibilities which it involves, but in unhesitating obedience to what I deem my constitutional duty, 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...
Página 213 - 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 ix - We are at the beginning of an age in which it will be insisted that the same standards of conduct and of responsibility for wrong done shall be observed among nations and their governments that are observed among the individual citizens of civilized states.
Página 241 - 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...
Página 241 - 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 309 - 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. XIII. An independent Polish state should be erected which should include the territories inhabited...
Página 23 - said my college friend, The Tory member's elder son, 'and there! God bless the narrow sea which keeps her off, And keeps our Britain, whole within herself, A nation yet, the rulers and the ruled — Some sense of duty, something of a faith, Some reverence for the laws ourselves have made, Some patient force to change them when we will, Some civic manhood firm against the crowd — But yonder, whiff!
Página 241 - Government denies the right of neutrals to use arms at all within the areas of the sea which it has proscribed, even in the defense of rights which no modern publicist has ever before questioned their right to defend.