War Addresses of Woodrow WilsonGinn, 1918 - 129 páginas |
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... thing involved than even equality of rights among organized nations . No peace can last , or ought to last , which does not recog- nize and accept the principle that Governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the ...
... thing involved than even equality of rights among organized nations . No peace can last , or ought to last , which does not recog- nize and accept the principle that Governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the ...
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... existence and our liberty . I cannot imagine any man with American principles at his heart hesitating to defend these things . SECOND INAUGURAL ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE INAUGURAL EXERCISES HELD ON 25 ARMED NEUTRALITY.
... existence and our liberty . I cannot imagine any man with American principles at his heart hesitating to defend these things . SECOND INAUGURAL ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE INAUGURAL EXERCISES HELD ON 25 ARMED NEUTRALITY.
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... things still to do at home to clarify our own politics and give new vitality to the industrial processes of our own life , and we shall do them as time and opportunity serve ; but we realize that the greatest things that remain to be ...
... things still to do at home to clarify our own politics and give new vitality to the industrial processes of our own life , and we shall do them as time and opportunity serve ; but we realize that the greatest things that remain to be ...
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... things we shall stand for , whether in war or in peace : 5 That all nations are equally interested in the peace of the world and in the political stability of free peoples , and equally responsible for their maintenance ; That the ...
... things we shall stand for , whether in war or in peace : 5 That all nations are equally interested in the peace of the world and in the political stability of free peoples , and equally responsible for their maintenance ; That the ...
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... thing I shall count upon , the thing without which neither counsel nor action will avail , is the unity of America and America united in feeling , in purpose , and in its vision of duty , of opportunity , and of service . We are to ...
... thing I shall count upon , the thing without which neither counsel nor action will avail , is the unity of America and America united in feeling , in purpose , and in its vision of duty , of opportunity , and of service . We are to ...
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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.