World War Issues and Ideals: Readings in Contemporary History and LiteratureMorris Edmund Speare Ginn, 1918 - 461 من الصفحات |
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... century has been in the advance and spread of demo- cratic government , and the correlative decrease in the extent and power of autocratic and dynastic governments . It is im- possible to regard the advance of democracy as being merely ...
... century has been in the advance and spread of demo- cratic government , and the correlative decrease in the extent and power of autocratic and dynastic governments . It is im- possible to regard the advance of democracy as being merely ...
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... century , and ended in the Treaty of Utrecht only when Louis XIV was reduced to exhaustion . What was that about ? Nothing more or less than the question what royal house should have its power increased by a marriage that would ...
... century , and ended in the Treaty of Utrecht only when Louis XIV was reduced to exhaustion . What was that about ? Nothing more or less than the question what royal house should have its power increased by a marriage that would ...
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... centuries of cruelties and chaos . You can have peace to - day , but it would be on a basis that history has demonstrated to be fatal to the lives of any great Commonwealth that purchased tran- quillity upon it . I am told that if you ...
... centuries of cruelties and chaos . You can have peace to - day , but it would be on a basis that history has demonstrated to be fatal to the lives of any great Commonwealth that purchased tran- quillity upon it . I am told that if you ...
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... century , the great fight for the right of men as men , and Europe again was drenched with blood . But at the end of it the peasantry were free , and democracy became a reality . Now we are faced with the greatest and grimmest struggle ...
... century , the great fight for the right of men as men , and Europe again was drenched with blood . But at the end of it the peasantry were free , and democracy became a reality . Now we are faced with the greatest and grimmest struggle ...
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... centuries expressed an im- pulse of much the same nature , in the new form of democracy . And the statement of the Darwinian theory , with its corollary of the survival of the fittest , had a profound effect in awaken- ing a more ...
... centuries expressed an im- pulse of much the same nature , in the new form of democracy . And the statement of the Darwinian theory , with its corollary of the survival of the fittest , had a profound effect in awaken- ing a more ...
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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.