"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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... crisis . For a great world crisis is on us , and this year of 1898 may mark one of the three great epochs in our history . Twice before in our national life have we stood in the presence of a great crisis . Twice before have we come to ...
... crisis . For a great world crisis is on us , and this year of 1898 may mark one of the three great epochs in our history . Twice before in our national life have we stood in the presence of a great crisis . Twice before have we come to ...
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... crisis . The end is seen from the beginning . It was known to Spain as clearly as to us . But her government had no recourse . They had come to the end of diplomacy , and could only die fighting . " To die game " is an old habit of the ...
... crisis . The end is seen from the beginning . It was known to Spain as clearly as to us . But her government had no recourse . They had come to the end of diplomacy , and could only die fighting . " To die game " is an old habit of the ...
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... crisis comes when the war is over . What then ? Our question is not what we shall do with Cuba , Porto Rico and the Philippines . It is what these prizes will do to us . Can we let go of them in honor or in safety ? If not , what if we ...
... crisis comes when the war is over . What then ? Our question is not what we shall do with Cuba , Porto Rico and the Philippines . It is what these prizes will do to us . Can we let go of them in honor or in safety ? If not , what if we ...
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... crisis re- mains . What effect must the war have on us ? " Our line of action seems a narrow one . Our policy has been fully declared . Our armies invade Cuba to put an end to disorder , brutality and murderous wrong . In the words of ...
... crisis re- mains . What effect must the war have on us ? " Our line of action seems a narrow one . Our policy has been fully declared . Our armies invade Cuba to put an end to disorder , brutality and murderous wrong . In the words of ...
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... crises in foreign af- fairs we must hold them with a steadier grasp than that with which we have held the Cuban question . We can- not move accurately and quickly under the joint leader- ship of a conservative and steady - headed ...
... crises in foreign af- fairs we must hold them with a steadier grasp than that with which we have held the Cuban question . We can- not move accurately and quickly under the joint leader- ship of a conservative and steady - headed ...
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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!