Patriotic Eloquence Relating to the Spanish-American War and Its IssuesRobert Irving Fulton, Thomas Clarkson Trueblood Scribner, 1900 - 364 páginas |
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... centuries , she left them without schools , or justice , or good roads , or any one thing that government gives in compensation for taxes , she was guilty of what is rightly called a war of conquest . When England went into Egypt and ...
... centuries , she left them without schools , or justice , or good roads , or any one thing that government gives in compensation for taxes , she was guilty of what is rightly called a war of conquest . When England went into Egypt and ...
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... century hence it will be seen that the greatest moment in American history since Lin- coln's proclamation of emancipation was that moment on a May morning when Admiral Dewey , on the flag- ship Olympia gave the signal for the opening of ...
... century hence it will be seen that the greatest moment in American history since Lin- coln's proclamation of emancipation was that moment on a May morning when Admiral Dewey , on the flag- ship Olympia gave the signal for the opening of ...
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... century is to be the uplifting of Asia and thus the unitizing of the globe . Woe be to our western world , as Captain Mahan has indicated , if the great Asiatic nations become equipped with our arms and become rich with our inventions ...
... century is to be the uplifting of Asia and thus the unitizing of the globe . Woe be to our western world , as Captain Mahan has indicated , if the great Asiatic nations become equipped with our arms and become rich with our inventions ...
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... century , perhaps greater than the nineteenth . As a nation we enter it not forgetful of what has been achieved . We already have national unity and local self - government . We shall have a new national ex- pansion in the days to come ...
... century , perhaps greater than the nineteenth . As a nation we enter it not forgetful of what has been achieved . We already have national unity and local self - government . We shall have a new national ex- pansion in the days to come ...
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... century and more . But from the sinking of the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay , the United States has been recognized in Europe as a world - power ; and henceforth she must play her part either nobly or ignobly upon this larger platform ...
... century and more . But from the sinking of the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay , the United States has been recognized in Europe as a world - power ; and henceforth she must play her part either nobly or ignobly upon this larger platform ...
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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.