President Wilson's AddressesH. Holt, 1918 - 311 páginas |
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... Navy Yard , May 11 , 1914. The roster , of fifteen sailors and four marines , was presented by the Secretary of the Navy , Mr. Daniels . ] MR . SECRETARY : I know that the feelings which characterize all who stand about me and the whole ...
... Navy Yard , May 11 , 1914. The roster , of fifteen sailors and four marines , was presented by the Secretary of the Navy , Mr. Daniels . ] MR . SECRETARY : I know that the feelings which characterize all who stand about me and the whole ...
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... Navy . You are going to make them fitter to obey your orders and to serve the country . You are going to make them fitter to see what the orders mean 5 in their outlook upon life and upon the service ; and that is a great privilege ...
... Navy . You are going to make them fitter to obey your orders and to serve the country . You are going to make them fitter to see what the orders mean 5 in their outlook upon life and upon the service ; and that is a great privilege ...
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... Navy and the Army come 25 away . Is that not something to be proud of , that you know how to use force like men of conscience and like gentlemen , serving your fellow - men and not trying to overcome them ? Like that gallant gentleman ...
... Navy and the Army come 25 away . Is that not something to be proud of , that you know how to use force like men of conscience and like gentlemen , serving your fellow - men and not trying to overcome them ? Like that gallant gentleman ...
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... navy we have always regarded as our proper and natural means of defense ; and it has always been of defense that we have thought , never of aggression or of conquest . But who shall tell us now what sort of a navy to build ? We shall ...
... navy we have always regarded as our proper and natural means of defense ; and it has always been of defense that we have thought , never of aggression or of conquest . But who shall tell us now what sort of a navy to build ? We shall ...
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... so sufficiently provided for them that when they choose they can take up arms and defend themselves . The Constitution of the United States makes the . President the Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy 158 Woodrow Wilson.
... so sufficiently provided for them that when they choose they can take up arms and defend themselves . The Constitution of the United States makes the . President the Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy 158 Woodrow Wilson.
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Página 280 - All French territory should be freed and the invaded portions restored, and the wrong done to France by Prussia in 1871 in the matter of Alsace-Lorraine, which has unsettled the peace of the world for nearly fifty years, should be righted, in order that peace may once more be made secure in the interest of all. 9. A readjustment of the frontiers of Italy should be effected along clearly recognizable lines of nationality.
Página 281 - ... territories inhabited by indisputably Polish populations, which should be assured a free and secure access to the sea, and whose political and economic independence and territorial integrity should be guaranteed by international covenant. XIV. A general association of nations must be formed under specific covenants for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small States alike.
Página 247 - 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 249 - To such a task we can dedicate our lives and our fortunes, everything that we are and everything that we have, with the pride of those who know that the day has come when America is privileged to spend her blood and her might for the principles that gave her birth and happiness and the peace which she has treasured. God helping her, she can do no other.
Página 244 - I advise that the Congress declare the recent course of the Imperial German Government to be in fact nothing less than war against the Government and people of the United States; that it formally accept the status of belligerent which has thus been thrust upon it; and that it take immediate steps not only to put the country in a more thorough state of defense, but also to exert all its power and employ all its resources to bring the Government of the German Empire to terms and end the war.
Página 249 - 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 249 - The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make. We are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind. We shall be satisfied when those rights have been made as secure as the faith and the freedom of nations can make them.
Página 280 - ... 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 she may need and may herself desire. The treatment accorded Russia by her sister nations in the months to come will be the acid test of their good will, of their comprehension of her needs as distinguished...
Página 279 - A free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims, based upon a strict observance of the principle that...
Página 150 - The example of America must be the example not merely of peace because it will not fight, but of peace because peace is the healing and elevating influence of the world and strife is not. There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.