"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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... rule with all its brutalities to the bustling ways of the Anglo - Saxon . Many of them would take their chances of being starved or butchered rather than to build roads , wash their faces and clean up their towns . To suppress the ...
... rule with all its brutalities to the bustling ways of the Anglo - Saxon . Many of them would take their chances of being starved or butchered rather than to build roads , wash their faces and clean up their towns . To suppress the ...
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... rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is , in extending our commercial relations , to have with them as little political connec- tion as possible . * * * Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none or a ...
... rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is , in extending our commercial relations , to have with them as little political connec- tion as possible . * * * Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none or a ...
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... rule their own affairs . The sub- ject nations and the military posts England rules by a rod of iron because no other rule is possible . Every year England seizes new posts , opens new ports and widens the stretch of her empire . But of ...
... rule their own affairs . The sub- ject nations and the military posts England rules by a rod of iron because no other rule is possible . Every year England seizes new posts , opens new ports and widens the stretch of her empire . But of ...
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... rule , but the direction of commerce . It is admi- ralty rather than democracy . Americans govern them- selves ... rules Ireland , India , Gibralter , Egypt , all Eng- land's dependencies and wards . The other colonies are republics in ...
... rule , but the direction of commerce . It is admi- ralty rather than democracy . Americans govern them- selves ... rules Ireland , India , Gibralter , Egypt , all Eng- land's dependencies and wards . The other colonies are republics in ...
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... rules hold in peace as in war . We can- not try civic experiments with a foe at our gates . A foe is always at the gates of a nation with a vigorous foreign policy . The British nation is hated and feared of all na- tions except our own ...
... rules hold in peace as in war . We can- not try civic experiments with a foe at our gates . A foe is always at the gates of a nation with a vigorous foreign policy . The British nation is hated and feared of all na- tions except our own ...
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Página 9 - 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 14 - 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 14 - 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 collisions of her friendships or enmities.
Página 9 - 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 14 - 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 32 - 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 ! The tumult and the shouting dies — The captains and the kings depart — Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heart. Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget — lest we forget...
Página 32 - The tumult and the shouting dies; The captains and the kings depart: Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heart. Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget — lest we forget...
Página 22 - 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 7 - 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...
Página 32 - The only government that I recognize — and it matters not how few are at the head of it, or how small its army — is that power that establishes justice in the land, never that which establishes injustice.