President Wilson's Foreign Policy: Messages, Addresses, PapersOxford University Press, American Branch, 1918 - 424 من الصفحات |
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... spirit of the most earnest and disinterested friendship . It is our purpose in whatever we do or propose in this per- plexing and distressing situation not only to pay the most scrupulous regard to the sovereignty and inde- pendence of ...
... spirit of the most earnest and disinterested friendship . It is our purpose in whatever we do or propose in this per- plexing and distressing situation not only to pay the most scrupulous regard to the sovereignty and inde- pendence of ...
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... spirit in which it had been undertaken . But the proposals he submitted were rejected , in a note the full text of which I take the liberty of laying before you . I am led to believe that they were rejected partly because the ...
... spirit in which it had been undertaken . But the proposals he submitted were rejected , in a note the full text of which I take the liberty of laying before you . I am led to believe that they were rejected partly because the ...
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... spirit in which they were made . We have not acted in this matter under the ordinary principles of international obligation . All the world expects us in such circumstances to act as Mexico's nearest friend and intimate adviser . This ...
... spirit in which they were made . We have not acted in this matter under the ordinary principles of international obligation . All the world expects us in such circumstances to act as Mexico's nearest friend and intimate adviser . This ...
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... spirits , no longer visible , but whose influence we still feel as we feel the molding power of history itself . The men who sat in this hall , to whom we now look back with a touch of deep sentiment , were men of flesh and blood , face ...
... spirits , no longer visible , but whose influence we still feel as we feel the molding power of history itself . The men who sat in this hall , to whom we now look back with a touch of deep sentiment , were men of flesh and blood , face ...
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... spirit is stout enough and his own mind able enough to attempt its great undertakings , but un- less he comprehend it he ought not to enter it . After he has comprehended it , there should come into his mind those profound impulses of ...
... spirit is stout enough and his own mind able enough to attempt its great undertakings , but un- less he comprehend it he ought not to enter it . After he has comprehended it , there should come into his mind those profound impulses of ...
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الصفحة xvi - 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.
الصفحة xiv - 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.
الصفحة 252 - 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.
الصفحة xiv - 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.
الصفحة 281 - 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.
الصفحة 360 - 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...
الصفحة 69 - The effect of the war upon the United States will depend upon what American citizens say and do. Every man who really loves America will act and speak in the true spirit of neutrality which is the spirit of impartiality and fairness and friendliness to all concerned.
الصفحة 46 - 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!
الصفحة 293 - ... great temptation of the present price of cotton and helping, helping upon a great scale, to feed the nation and the peoples everywhere who are fighting for their liberties and for our own. The variety of their crops will be the visible measure of their comprehension of their national duty. The Government of the United States and the governments of the several States stand ready to co-operate. They will do everything possible to assist farmers in securing an adequate supply of seed, an adequate...
الصفحة 276 - 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.