War Addresses of Woodrow WilsonGinn, 1918 - 129 páginas |
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... Wilson Arthur Roy Leonard. COPYRIGHT , 1918 , BY ARTHUR ROY LEONARD ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 218.4 Philseoply The Athenæum Press GINN AND COMPANY . PRO- PRIETORS BOSTON U.S.A. XB 3837 D 619 A35 PREFACE There are three reasons why the.
... Wilson Arthur Roy Leonard. COPYRIGHT , 1918 , BY ARTHUR ROY LEONARD ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 218.4 Philseoply The Athenæum Press GINN AND COMPANY . PRO- PRIETORS BOSTON U.S.A. XB 3837 D 619 A35 PREFACE There are three reasons why the.
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... reason for refusing to study them . The third reason may best be indicated by a quota- tion from the President's letter of August 23 , 1917 , to school officers : The war is bringing to the minds of our people a new appreciation of the ...
... reason for refusing to study them . The third reason may best be indicated by a quota- tion from the President's letter of August 23 , 1917 , to school officers : The war is bringing to the minds of our people a new appreciation of the ...
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... reason that I have spoken of the other conditions of peace , which seem to me clearly indispensable - because I wish frankly to uncover realities . Any peace that does not recognize and accept this principle will inevitably be upset ...
... reason that I have spoken of the other conditions of peace , which seem to me clearly indispensable - because I wish frankly to uncover realities . Any peace that does not recognize and accept this principle will inevitably be upset ...
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... reason I came away from Washington is that I sometimes get lonely down there . There are so many people in Washington who know things that are not so , and there are so few people who know anything about what the people of the United ...
... reason I came away from Washington is that I sometimes get lonely down there . There are so many people in Washington who know things that are not so , and there are so few people who know anything about what the people of the United ...
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... reason why a right use should not be made of it . It ought to be brought under the patronage of its real friends . Let it be said again that autocracy must first be shown the utter futility of its claims to power or leadership in the ...
... reason why a right use should not be made of it . It ought to be brought under the patronage of its real friends . Let it be said again that autocracy must first be shown the utter futility of its claims to power or leadership in the ...
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Página 45 - It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilization itself seeming to be in the balance. 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, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert...
Página 98 - Belgium, the whole world will agree, must be evacuated and restored, without any attempt to limit the sovereignty which she enjoys in common with all other free nations. No other single act will serve as this will serve to restore confidence...
Página xxxi - We are accepting this challenge of hostile purpose because we know that in such a government, following such methods, we can never have a friend; and that in the presence of its organized power, always lying in wait to accomplish we know not what purpose, there can be no assured security for the democratic governments of the world.
Página 40 - Does not every American feel that assurance has been added to our hope for the future peace of the world by the wonderful and heartening things that have been happening within the last few weeks in Russia? Russia was known by those who knew it best to have been always in fact democratic at heart...
Página 97 - ... 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. All the peoples of the world are in effect partners in this interest, and for our own part we see very clearly that unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
Página 39 - We have no quarrel with the German people. We have no feeling towards them but one of sympathy and friendship. It was not upon their impulse that their government acted in entering this war. It was not with their previous knowledge or approval. . 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...
Página 97 - 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.
Página 37 - 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...
Página 9 - And the paths of the sea must alike in law and in fact be free. The freedom of the seas is the sine qua non of peace, equality, and cooperation.
Página 39 - Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies or set the course of intrigue to bring about some critical posture of affairs which will give them an opportunity to strike and make conquest.