World War Issues and Ideals: Readings in Contemporary History and LiteratureMorris Edmund Speare Ginn, 1918 - 461 من الصفحات |
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... England , in her steady - going , undemonstrative way , has moved along from government by a king claiming divine right to a Commons representing popular right through the revolution of 1688 , which established the nation's right to 1 ...
... England , in her steady - going , undemonstrative way , has moved along from government by a king claiming divine right to a Commons representing popular right through the revolution of 1688 , which established the nation's right to 1 ...
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... England to the danger that he saw so plainly in Germany's stupendous preparation for conquest . It is well known that when the war came France was almost upon the verge of diminishing her army by a reduction in the years of service . In ...
... England to the danger that he saw so plainly in Germany's stupendous preparation for conquest . It is well known that when the war came France was almost upon the verge of diminishing her army by a reduction in the years of service . In ...
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... England , but spent most of his early life in Wales , the country of his parents . In 1890 he entered Parliament and has been a Cabinet minister since 1905 . In 1909 as Chancellor of the Exchequer he introduced the budget which with its ...
... England , but spent most of his early life in Wales , the country of his parents . In 1890 he entered Parliament and has been a Cabinet minister since 1905 . In 1909 as Chancellor of the Exchequer he introduced the budget which with its ...
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... England never Scotland never Wales and never Ireland . Wan- tonly provoked by England to increase her possessions , and to destroy the influence , the power , and the prosperity of a dangerous rival . There never was a more foolish ...
... England never Scotland never Wales and never Ireland . Wan- tonly provoked by England to increase her possessions , and to destroy the influence , the power , and the prosperity of a dangerous rival . There never was a more foolish ...
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... England , provoked this war . " It is not quite the story of the wolf and the lamb . I will tell you why - because Ger- many expected to find a lamb and found a lion . So much for our responsibility for war , and it is necessary that ...
... England , provoked this war . " It is not quite the story of the wolf and the lamb . I will tell you why - because Ger- many expected to find a lamb and found a lion . So much for our responsibility for war , and it is necessary that ...
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الصفحة 155 - To what purpose are powers limited and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may at any time be passed by those intended to be restrained ? The distinction between a government with limited and unlimited powers is abolished if those limits do not confine the persons on whom they are imposed, and if acts prohibited and acts allowed are of equal obligation.
الصفحة 155 - The Constitution is either a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, and, like other acts, is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it.
الصفحة 390 - If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same...
الصفحة 153 - A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism.
الصفحة 288 - The peoples of Austria-Hungary, whose place among the nations we wish to see safeguarded and assured, should be accorded the freest opportunity of autonomous development.
الصفحة 9 - The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. 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 158 - Towards the preservation of your government, and the permanency of your present happy state, it is requisite not only that you steadily discountenance irregular oppositions to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles, however specious the pretexts.
الصفحة 158 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government. But the Constitution which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all.
الصفحة 156 - ... there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
الصفحة 287 - ... made fit and safe to 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.