Democracy Today: An American InterpretationChristian Gauss Scott, Foresman, 1917 - 310 páginas |
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... interest of democracy , in the interest of founding a government which on the one hand should be responsible to the people and for which on the other , the people should be responsible . / Any particular state is merely the expression ...
... interest of democracy , in the interest of founding a government which on the one hand should be responsible to the people and for which on the other , the people should be responsible . / Any particular state is merely the expression ...
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... interest , and to ask your indulgence for a few somewhat generalized remarks on a matter concerning which I had some experimental knowledge , derived from the use of such eyes and ears as Nature had been pleased to endow me withal , and ...
... interest , and to ask your indulgence for a few somewhat generalized remarks on a matter concerning which I had some experimental knowledge , derived from the use of such eyes and ears as Nature had been pleased to endow me withal , and ...
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... interest on her bonds in gold , though it cost her sometimes nearly three for one to keep her faith , and that while suffer- ing an unparalleled drain of men and treasure in help- ing to sustain the unity and self - respect of the ...
... interest on her bonds in gold , though it cost her sometimes nearly three for one to keep her faith , and that while suffer- ing an unparalleled drain of men and treasure in help- ing to sustain the unity and self - respect of the ...
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... interest and less to edify me in these interna- tional bandyings of " You're another . " " I shall address myself to a single point only in the long list of offenses of which we are more or less gravely accused , because that really ...
... interest and less to edify me in these interna- tional bandyings of " You're another . " " I shall address myself to a single point only in the long list of offenses of which we are more or less gravely accused , because that really ...
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... interests , or what they suppose to be their opinions , and christen it Democracy , much as physicians label every obscure disease gout , or as cross - grained fellows lay their ill - temper to the weather . But is it really a new ...
... interests , or what they suppose to be their opinions , and christen it Democracy , much as physicians label every obscure disease gout , or as cross - grained fellows lay their ill - temper to the weather . But is it really a new ...
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN action affairs aggression Alsace-Lorraine America arms army ARTICLE Austria-Hungary authority autocracy Bagdad railway Belgium believe Berlin Central Powers citizens civilization Congress Constitution coöperation DAVID LLOYD GEORGE declared defend democracy democratic desire duty electors Emperor Empire enemies Europe executive fact feel fight Flag Day Address force foreign France FRANKLIN KNIGHT LANE freedom French German Empire GETTYSBURG NATIONAL CEMETERY guarantee heart honor hope human ideal Imperial German Government independence industry interest justice labor land liberty Lincoln lives Lusitania mankind matter means ment military mind Monroe doctrine nations necessary neutral never ourselves patriotic peace person political present President Wilson principles privilege purpose question reason Reichstag Russia seas secure seek selfish Senate Serbia ships spirit stand submarine sunk territory things thought tion treaty United vessels vote Washington whole number WILSON ADDRESS DELIVERED wish WOODROW WILSON ADDRESS wrong
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Página 231 - To establish post offices and post roads; To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries; To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court; To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and...
Página 214 - A free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims, based upon a strict observance of the principle that in determining all such questions of sovereignty the interests of the populations concerned must have equal weight with the equitable claims of the government whose title is to be determined.
Página 217 - An independent Polish state should be erected which should include the 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.
Página 215 - 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 111 - I am proposing, as it were, that the nations should with one accord adopt the doctrine of President Monroe as the doctrine of the world: That no nation should seek to extend its...
Página 127 - The new policy has swept every restriction aside. Vessels of every kind, whatever their flag, their character, their cargo, their destination, their errand, have been ruthlessly sent to the bottom without warning and without thought of help or mercy for those on board, the vessels of friendly neutrals, along with those of belligerents.
Página 217 - 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 138 - We shall, happily, still have an opportunity to prove that friendship in our daily attitude and actions...
Página 138 - It will be all the easier for us to conduct ourselves as belligerents in a high spirit of right and fairness...
Página 136 - We are accepting this challenge of hostile purpose because we know that in such a government, following such methods, we can never have a friend ; and that in the presence of its organized power, always lying in wait to accomplish we know not what purpose, there can be no assured security for the democratic governments of the world.