Americanism: Woodrow Wilson's Speeches on the War--why He Made Them and what They Have Done : the President's Principal Utterances in the First Year of War : with Notes, Comments and War Dates, Giving Them Their Historical Setting, Significance and Consequences, and with Brief Quotations from Earlier Speeches and PapersBaldwin Syndicate, 1918 - 144 páginas |
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... mean to live our own lives as we will ; but we mean also to let live . We are , indeed , a true friend to all the nations of the world . We are the champions of peace and of concord . . DECEMBER 9 , 1914 - FRENCH Government Returns to ...
... mean to live our own lives as we will ; but we mean also to let live . We are , indeed , a true friend to all the nations of the world . We are the champions of peace and of concord . . DECEMBER 9 , 1914 - FRENCH Government Returns to ...
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... mean to say that any American government would throw any obstacle in the way of any terms of peace the govern- ments now at war might agree upon , or seek to upset them when made , whatever they might be . I only take it for granted ...
... mean to say that any American government would throw any obstacle in the way of any terms of peace the govern- ments now at war might agree upon , or seek to upset them when made , whatever they might be . I only take it for granted ...
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... mean peace forced upon the loser , a victor's terms imposed upon the vanquished . It would be ac- cepted in humiliation , under duress , at an intolerable sacrifice , and would leave a sting , a resentment , a bitter memory upon which ...
... mean peace forced upon the loser , a victor's terms imposed upon the vanquished . It would be ac- cepted in humiliation , under duress , at an intolerable sacrifice , and would leave a sting , a resentment , a bitter memory upon which ...
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... means that may be necessary for the protection of our seamen and our people in the prosecution of their peaceful and legitimate errands on the high seas . I can do nothing less . I take it for granted that all neutral governments will ...
... means that may be necessary for the protection of our seamen and our people in the prosecution of their peaceful and legitimate errands on the high seas . I can do nothing less . I take it for granted that all neutral governments will ...
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... mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able . I am not now proposing or contemplating war or any steps that need lead to it . I merely request that you will accord me by your own vote and definite bestowal the means and the ...
... mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able . I am not now proposing or contemplating war or any steps that need lead to it . I merely request that you will accord me by your own vote and definite bestowal the means and the ...
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Términos y frases comunes
1917-PRESIDENT WILSON accept action affairs Allies Alsace-Lorraine American armies armistice assured Austria Austria-Hungary autocracy believe belligerents Brest-Litovsk Central Empires Central Powers common Congress coöperation counsel covenants DECEMBER definite democracy desire duty ernment evacuation everywhere FEBRUARY FEBRUARY 11 feel fighting force France freedom Gentlemen German Empire Germany's guarantee heart Hertling honor hope humanity Imperial German Government industries interest intrigue involved issues JANUARY justice labor League League of Nations liberty live mankind MARCH 11 matter means ment military nations necessary NOVEMBER NOVEMBER 11 objects OCTOBER ourselves PEACE OFFENSIVE PEACE TERMS political possible present President Wilson President's principle proposed purpose regard Reichstag reply Russia safe secure seek selfish Serbia settlement ships speak speech spirit spokesmen stand statesmen submarines terms of peace territory things thought tion troops United utter VOICE OF RUSSIA whole WILSON ADDRESSES wish WOODROW WILSON wrong
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Página 96 - The evacuation of all Russian territory and such a settlement of all questions affecting Russia as will secure the best and freest co-operation of the other nations of the world in obtaining for her an unhampered and unembarrassed opportunity for the independent determination of her own political development and national policy and assure her of a sincere welcome into the society of free nations under institutions of her own choosing ; and, more than a welcome, assistance also of every kind that...
Página 96 - Belgium, the whole world will agree, must be evacuated and restored, without any attempt to limit the sovereignty which she enjoys in common with all other free nations. No other single act will serve as this will serve to restore confidence...
Página 38 - A steadfast concert for peace can never be maintained except by a partnership of democratic nations. No autocratic Government could be trusted to keep faith within it or observe its covenants.
Página 42 - It is a distressing and oppressive duty, gentlemen of the Congress, which I have performed in thus addressing you. There are, it may be, many months of fiery trial and sacrifice ahead of us. It is a fearful thing to lead this great, peaceful people into war...
Página 96 - ... be made fit and safe to live in; and particularly that it be made safe for every peace-loving nation which, like our own, wishes to live its own life, determine its own institutions, be assured of justice and fair dealing by the other peoples of the world as against force and selfish aggression. All the peoples of the world are in effect partners in this interest, and for our own part we see very clearly that unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
Página 24 - The question upon which the whole future peace and policy of the world depends is this: Is the present war a struggle for a just and secure peace, or only for a new balance of power? If it be only a struggle for a new balance of power, who will guarantee, who can guarantee, the stable equilibrium of the new arrangement? Only a tranquil Europe can be a stable Europe. There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized common peace.
Página 38 - Cunningly contrived plans of deception or aggression, carried, it may be, from generation to generation, can be worked out and kept from the light only within the privacy of courts or behind the carefully guarded confidences of a narrow and privileged class. They are happily impossible where public opinion commands and insists upon full information concerning all the nation's affairs.
Página 138 - By it they understand that compensation will be made by Germany for all damage done to the civilian population of the Allies and their property by the aggression of Germany by land, by sea, and from the air.
Página 120 - The settlement of every question, whether of territory, of sovereignty, of economic arrangement, or of political relationship, upon the basis of the free acceptance of that settlement by the people immediately concerned, and not upon the basis of the material interest or advantage of any other nation or people which may desire a different settlement for the sake of its own exterior influence or mastery.
Página 38 - There is one choice we cannot make, we are incapable of making : we will not choose the path of submission and suffer the most sacred rights of our nation and our people to be ignored or violated.