Patriotic Eloquence Relating to the Spanish-American War and Its IssuesRobert Irving Fulton, Thomas Clarkson Trueblood Scribner, 1900 - 364 páginas |
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... Manila , and re- sponsible for the protection of life and property within that city . Whether we had blundered into that re- sponsibility is a question which I do not now discuss ; I am not here to argue the Philippine problem , so ...
... Manila , and re- sponsible for the protection of life and property within that city . Whether we had blundered into that re- sponsibility is a question which I do not now discuss ; I am not here to argue the Philippine problem , so ...
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... Manila did , in fact , depend on General Otis . On the fifth of that month our troops surrounding that city for its protection were attacked ; fighting ensued ; and ten days later the fol- lowing proclamation was issued from the so ...
... Manila did , in fact , depend on General Otis . On the fifth of that month our troops surrounding that city for its protection were attacked ; fighting ensued ; and ten days later the fol- lowing proclamation was issued from the so ...
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... Manila , pledge ourselves anew to be true to the spirit of our history , and mingle with our shouts of triumph our fresh declaration for arbitration , whenever possible , as the means of averting war and of settling most inter- national ...
... Manila , pledge ourselves anew to be true to the spirit of our history , and mingle with our shouts of triumph our fresh declaration for arbitration , whenever possible , as the means of averting war and of settling most inter- national ...
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... Manila brought the great continent seven thousand miles nearer to our shores . God spake in his providence . It was done , and the destinies of the greatest of republics were indissolubly united to the moral and material fortunes of ...
... Manila brought the great continent seven thousand miles nearer to our shores . God spake in his providence . It was done , and the destinies of the greatest of republics were indissolubly united to the moral and material fortunes of ...
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... Manila and Santiago will rank in history among the decisive battles of the world . Ours was a war for humanity , which the greater states- men for fifty years have felt was inevitable . In our complacent prosperity we gave little heed ...
... Manila and Santiago will rank in history among the decisive battles of the world . Ours was a war for humanity , which the greater states- men for fifty years have felt was inevitable . In our complacent prosperity we gave little heed ...
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Página 289 - This is a world of compensation and he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
Página 49 - Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice ; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
Página 309 - Oh ! be swift, my soul, to answer Him ! be jubilant, my feet ! Our God is marching on. In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me : As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.
Página 189 - ... whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
Página 149 - A second observation to be made is that the immediate object of the federal Constitution is to secure the union of the thirteen primitive States, which we know to be practicable; and to add to them such other States as may arise in their own bosoms, or in their neighborhoods, which we cannot doubt to be equally practicable.
Página 296 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Página 36 - And just beyond the Philippines are China's illimitable markets. We will not retreat from either. We will not repudiate our duty in the archipelago. We will not abandon our opportunity in the Orient. We will not renounce our part in the mission of our race, trustee, under God, of the civilization of the world.
Página 40 - Don't you tell us all, once a year, that governments derive their just power from the consent of the governed?
Página 34 - God has not been preparing the English-speaking and Teutonic peoples for a thousand years for nothing but vain and idle self-contemplation and self-admiration. No! He has made us the master organizers of the world to establish system where chaos reigns.
Página 303 - O SING unto the Lord a new song: for he hath done marvellous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory.