"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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... duties as well as its glories , and of these the duties are most numerous as well as most insistent . We must take lessons in respect for law from the only nation ( save thrifty Holland ) whose foreign possessions have been other than a ...
... duties as well as its glories , and of these the duties are most numerous as well as most insistent . We must take lessons in respect for law from the only nation ( save thrifty Holland ) whose foreign possessions have been other than a ...
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... duty . It does not matter whether his name be on the headlines of the newspapers or not . His greatness is not enhanced when a street or a trotting horse is named for him . It is the business of the Republic to make a nation of heroes ...
... duty . It does not matter whether his name be on the headlines of the newspapers or not . His greatness is not enhanced when a street or a trotting horse is named for him . It is the business of the Republic to make a nation of heroes ...
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... duty of the Republic , to strengthen itself whenever it safely can , to do its part in redeeming the victims of ignorance as well as of cruelty , to gather to itself the riches that will free it from debt , and make its influence ...
... duty of the Republic , to strengthen itself whenever it safely can , to do its part in redeeming the victims of ignorance as well as of cruelty , to gather to itself the riches that will free it from debt , and make its influence ...
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... duties which the higher freedom demands . To turn to these empty and showy affairs , is to neglect our own business for the gossip of our neighbors . Such work may be a matter of necessity ; it should not be a source of pride . The ...
... duties which the higher freedom demands . To turn to these empty and showy affairs , is to neglect our own business for the gossip of our neighbors . Such work may be a matter of necessity ; it should not be a source of pride . The ...
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... duty which are the surest foundation of national greatness . An active foreign policy would slowly change much of this . The nation which deals with war and diplomacy must be quick to act and quick to change . It must , like the Oregon ...
... duty which are the surest foundation of national greatness . An active foreign policy would slowly change much of this . The nation which deals with war and diplomacy must be quick to act and quick to change . It must , like the Oregon ...
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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!