"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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... says the Spanish diplomat , with pathetic honesty , " it can only bring ruin to Spain . " war . It is too late for us now to ask how we got into the Was it inevitable ? Was it wise ? Was it right- eous ? We need not ask these questions ...
... says the Spanish diplomat , with pathetic honesty , " it can only bring ruin to Spain . " war . It is too late for us now to ask how we got into the Was it inevitable ? Was it wise ? Was it right- eous ? We need not ask these questions ...
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... say . Certainly , but they were already there , else they could not be stirred . I doubt if there is more love of country with us to - day than there was a year ago . Real love of country is not easily moved . Its guarantee is its per ...
... say . Certainly , but they were already there , else they could not be stirred . I doubt if there is more love of country with us to - day than there was a year ago . Real love of country is not easily moved . Its guarantee is its per ...
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... says Dr. Johnson , " is the last refuge of the scoundrel . " But he was speaking of coun- terfeit patriotism . There ... say they have no interest in reform until the war is over . There is no use of talking of better financial methods ...
... says Dr. Johnson , " is the last refuge of the scoundrel . " But he was speaking of coun- terfeit patriotism . There ... say they have no interest in reform until the war is over . There is no use of talking of better financial methods ...
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... says- " I am a Southerner , I loved the South and dared for her To fight from Lookout to the sea With her proud banner over me , " stood before the ranks of the Grand Army and spoke these words : " I stand and say that you were right ...
... says- " I am a Southerner , I loved the South and dared for her To fight from Lookout to the sea With her proud banner over me , " stood before the ranks of the Grand Army and spoke these words : " I stand and say that you were right ...
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... say to - day that war is necessary to the Republic because we need new heroes for our worship . The old heroes are getting stale . Those of the Revolution are half mythical . Washington and Greene were never actually alive in real flesh ...
... say to - day that war is necessary to the Republic because we need new heroes for our worship . The old heroes are getting stale . Those of the Revolution are half mythical . Washington and Greene were never actually alive in real flesh ...
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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.