President Wilson's Foreign Policy: Messages, Addresses, PapersOxford University Press, American Branch, 1918 - 424 من الصفحات |
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... wish to act in these circumstances in the 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 ...
... wish to act in these circumstances in the 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 ...
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... wish to speak with moderation and , I hope , without indiscretion . We must prove ourselves their friends and cham- pions upon terms of equality and honor . You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality ...
... wish to speak with moderation and , I hope , without indiscretion . We must prove ourselves their friends and cham- pions upon terms of equality and honor . You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality ...
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... wish to correct the nineteenth century that now lies behind us has brought us a long stage toward the time when , slowly ascending the tedious climb that leads to the final uplands , we shall get our ultimate view of the duties of ...
... wish to correct the nineteenth century that now lies behind us has brought us a long stage toward the time when , slowly ascending the tedious climb that leads to the final uplands , we shall get our ultimate view of the duties of ...
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... wish in every way to make proof of our friendship , work out their own development in peace and liberty . Mexico has no Gov- ernment . The attempt to maintain one at the City of Mexico has broken down , and a mere military des- potism ...
... wish in every way to make proof of our friendship , work out their own development in peace and liberty . Mexico has no Gov- ernment . The attempt to maintain one at the City of Mexico has broken down , and a mere military des- potism ...
الصفحة 36
... doing has proceeded from our desire to help them , not to hinder or embarrass them . We would not wish even to exercise the good offices of The friendship without their welcome and consent . people of 36 PRESIDENT WILSON'S FOREIGN POLICY.
... doing has proceeded from our desire to help them , not to hinder or embarrass them . We would not wish even to exercise the good offices of The friendship without their welcome and consent . people of 36 PRESIDENT WILSON'S FOREIGN POLICY.
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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.