"Lest We Forget": An Address Delivered Before the Graduating Class of 1898, Leland Stanford Jr. University, on May 25, 1898University, 1898 - 36 páginas |
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... courage is helpless before it . The standing of our naval officers in matters of engineering is beyond question . There are a hundred nameless lieutenants in our war- ships who , if opportunity offered , could write their names beside ...
... courage is helpless before it . The standing of our naval officers in matters of engineering is beyond question . There are a hundred nameless lieutenants in our war- ships who , if opportunity offered , could write their names beside ...
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... appeals . Love of adventure we may not despise . It is the precious heritage of new races ; it is the basis of personal courage ; but it is not patriotism ; it is push . Love of fight is not in itself unworthy . The race which 9.
... appeals . Love of adventure we may not despise . It is the precious heritage of new races ; it is the basis of personal courage ; but it is not patriotism ; it is push . Love of fight is not in itself unworthy . The race which 9.
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... courage . Patriotism is the will to serve one's country ; to make one's country better worth serving . It is a course of action rather than a sentiment . It is serious rather than stirring . The shrilling of the mob is not patriotism ...
... courage . Patriotism is the will to serve one's country ; to make one's country better worth serving . It is a course of action rather than a sentiment . It is serious rather than stirring . The shrilling of the mob is not patriotism ...
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... courage , in whatever section or party , in whatever trade or profession , shows that with all our surface divisions , we of America are one in heart . The impartial bitterness of Spanish hatred directed toward all classes and ...
... courage , in whatever section or party , in whatever trade or profession , shows that with all our surface divisions , we of America are one in heart . The impartial bitterness of Spanish hatred directed toward all classes and ...
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... courage of brave men is an excuse for the depredations of venal poli- ticians . The glorious banner of freedom becomes the cover for the sutler's tent , The test of civilization is the substitution of law for war ; statutes for brute ...
... courage of brave men is an excuse for the depredations of venal poli- ticians . The glorious banner of freedom becomes the cover for the sutler's tent , The test of civilization is the substitution of law for war ; statutes for brute ...
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Página 18 - The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible.
Página 18 - Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice?
Página 13 - That the United States hereby disclaims any disposition or intention to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction, or control over said island except for the pacification thereof, and asserts its determination when that is accomplished to leave the government and control of the island to its people.
Página 18 - Europe has a set of primary interests, which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence therefore it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves, by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations and collision of her friendships, or enmities: Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course.
Página 26 - We have fed our sea for a thousand years And she calls us, still unfed, Though there's never a wave of all her waves But marks our English dead: We have strawed our best to the weed's unrest, To the shark and the sheering gull. If blood be the price of admiralty, Lord God, we ha...
Página 13 - Whereas the abhorrent conditions which have existed for more than three years in the island of Cuba, so near our own borders, have shocked the moral sense of the people of the United States...
Página 27 - We must feed our sea for a thousand years, For that is our doom and pride, As it was when they sailed with the ' Golden Hind,' Or the wreck that struck last tide — Or the wreck that lies on the spouting reef Where the ghastly blue-lights flare. If blood be the price of admiralty, If blood be the price of admiralty, If blood be the price of admiralty, Lord God, we ha
Página 36 - Far-called our navies melt away — On dune and headland sinks the fire — Lo, all our pomp of yesterday Is one with Nineveh and Tyre ! Judge of the Nations, spare us yet, Lest we forget — lest we forget!
Página 36 - God of our fathers, known of old — Lord of our far-flung battle line — Beneath whose awful Hand we hold Dominion over palm and pine ; Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget — lest we forget.
Página 11 - God in battle-thunder spoke, And that Black Idol, breeding drouth And dearth of human sympathy Throughout the sweet and sensuous South, Was, with its chains and human yoke, Blown hellward from the cannon's mouth, While Freedom cheered behind the smoke!