President Wilson's State Papers and AddressesGeorge H. Doran Company, The Review of reviews Company, 1917 - 484 páginas |
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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 navy to build ? We shall take ...
... 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 navy to build ? We shall take ...
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... Navy , to prepare plans for submission to Congress . A month before the session began , when he was to make formal recommendations , the President made public the Administration's program , in the following address : ] Mr. Toastmaster ...
... Navy , to prepare plans for submission to Congress . A month before the session began , when he was to make formal recommendations , the President made public the Administration's program , in the following address : ] Mr. Toastmaster ...
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... Navy as the first and chief line of defense . The Navy of the United States is already a very great and efficient force . Not rapidly , but slowly , with careful at- tention , our naval force has been developed until the Navy of the ...
... Navy as the first and chief line of defense . The Navy of the United States is already a very great and efficient force . Not rapidly , but slowly , with careful at- tention , our naval force has been developed until the Navy of the ...
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... Navy Depart- ment are plans which the whole nation can approve with rational enthusiasm . No thoughtful man feels any panic haste in this matter . The country is not threatened from any quarter . She stands in friendly relations with ...
... Navy Depart- ment are plans which the whole nation can approve with rational enthusiasm . No thoughtful man feels any panic haste in this matter . The country is not threatened from any quarter . She stands in friendly relations with ...
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... Sec- retary of the Navy is similarly conceived . It involves only . a shortening of the time within which plans long matured shall be carried out ; but it does make definite 140 Presidential Messages , Addresses and State Papers.
... Sec- retary of the Navy is similarly conceived . It involves only . a shortening of the time within which plans long matured shall be carried out ; but it does make definite 140 Presidential Messages , Addresses and State Papers.
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Página 380 - But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts, for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments...
Página 351 - No peace can last, or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principle that governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed, and that no right anywhere exists to hand peoples about from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were property.
Página 380 - We are, let me say again, the sincere friends of the German people, and shall desire nothing so much as the early re-establishment of intimate relations of mutual advantage between us, however hard it may be for them, for the time being, to believe that this is spoken from our hearts.
Página 374 - 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. The wrongs against which we now array ourselves are no common wrongs ; they cut to the very roots of human life.
Página 375 - I hope, so far as they can equitably be sustained by the present generation, by well conceived taxation. I say sustained so far as may be equitable by taxation because it seems to me that it would be most unwise to base the credits which will now be necessary entirely on money borrowed. It is our duty, I most respectfully urge, to protect our people so far as we may against the very serious hardships and evils which would be likely to arise out of the inflation which would be produced by vast loans.
Página 57 - Paraguay, and I do hereby warn them that all violations of such provisions will be rigorously prosecuted. And I do hereby enjoin upon all officers of the United States charged with the execution of the laws thereof, the utmost diligence in preventing violations of the said joint resolution and this my proclamation issued thereunder, and in bringing to trial and punishment any offenders against the same.
Página 55 - President shall prescribe any arms or munitions of war from any place in the United States to such country until otherwise ordered by the President or by Congress.