World War Issues and Ideals: Readings in Contemporary History and LiteratureMorris Edmund Speare Ginn, 1918 - 461 من الصفحات |
من داخل الكتاب
النتائج 1-5 من 77
الصفحة iii
... tion of those ideals , and what are the ideals of those nations whom we are to - day influencing and with whom we have been allied . A new program for a cosmopolitan education must be hereafter adopted . We must henceforth cultivate to ...
... tion of those ideals , and what are the ideals of those nations whom we are to - day influencing and with whom we have been allied . A new program for a cosmopolitan education must be hereafter adopted . We must henceforth cultivate to ...
الصفحة vi
... tion courses may be seen not only in the adoption of the practice by many schools and colleges but also from the recommendation of its value by educators now directly serving the government . One need scarcely reassert what these ...
... tion courses may be seen not only in the adoption of the practice by many schools and colleges but also from the recommendation of its value by educators now directly serving the government . One need scarcely reassert what these ...
الصفحة 5
... tion . The challenge is to all mankind . Each nation must decide for itself how it will meet it . The choice we make for ourselves must be made with a moderation of counsel and a temperateness of judgment befitting our character and our ...
... tion . The challenge is to all mankind . Each nation must decide for itself how it will meet it . The choice we make for ourselves must be made with a moderation of counsel and a temperateness of judgment befitting our character and our ...
الصفحة 15
... tion : " We should consider any attempt on their part ( the European powers ) to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety . " Against the deep and settled purpose of a ruling family or a ...
... tion : " We should consider any attempt on their part ( the European powers ) to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety . " Against the deep and settled purpose of a ruling family or a ...
الصفحة 17
... tion between democracy and autocracy is that while the government of an autocracy is superior to the law , the govern- ment of a democracy is subject to the law . The conception of an international law binding upon the governments of ...
... tion between democracy and autocracy is that while the government of an autocracy is superior to the law , the govern- ment of a democracy is subject to the law . The conception of an international law binding upon the governments of ...
طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
action Alsace-Lorraine American army artillery Atlantic Monthly Austria-Hungary autocracy Belgium Blackwood's Magazine British British Empire century character citizens civilization common conquest Constitution coöperation course democracy democratic Dinant duty economic Elihu Root Empire enemy England English Europe European fact feeling fighting fire force France French frontier future German hand honor House of Lords human ideal ideas Imperial independence individual industrial institutions interest JAMES HARVEY ROBINSON justice land leader league League of Nations liberty lives loyalty means ment military mind modern Monroe Doctrine moral nations nature never novels offensive officer opinion organized party patriotism peace Philippines political practical present principles purpose question race Reprinted by permission rule Russia self-government sentiment Serbia social soldiers spirit territory things tion to-day treaty true United unity Western whole
مقاطع مشهورة
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.