President Wilson's State Papers and AddressesGeorge H. Doran Company, The Review of reviews Company, 1917 - 484 páginas |
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... enterprise of groups of men . It is great , also , very great , in its moral force . We have built up , moreover , a great system of government , which has stood through a long age as in many respects a model for those who seek to set ...
... enterprise of groups of men . It is great , also , very great , in its moral force . We have built up , moreover , a great system of government , which has stood through a long age as in many respects a model for those who seek to set ...
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... enterprise of the new day : To lift everything that concerns our life as a Nation to the light that shines from the hearthfire of every man's con- science and vision of the right . It is inconceivable that we should do this as partisans ...
... enterprise of the new day : To lift everything that concerns our life as a Nation to the light that shines from the hearthfire of every man's con- science and vision of the right . It is inconceivable that we should do this as partisans ...
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... enterprise and keep independ- ent energy alive . It is plain what those principles must be . We must abolish everything that bears even the semblance of priv- ilege or of any kind of artificial advantage , and put our business men and ...
... enterprise and keep independ- ent energy alive . It is plain what those principles must be . We must abolish everything that bears even the semblance of priv- ilege or of any kind of artificial advantage , and put our business men and ...
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... enterprise and of individual initiative which we are about to bestow upon them . We are about to set them free ; we must not leave them without the tools of action when they are free . We are about to set them free by removing the ...
... enterprise and of individual initiative which we are about to bestow upon them . We are about to set them free ; we must not leave them without the tools of action when they are free . We are about to set them free by removing the ...
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... enterprise which independent men need when acting on their own initiative . It is not enough to strike the shackles from business . The duty of statesmanship is not negative merely . It is constructive also . We must show that we ...
... enterprise which independent men need when acting on their own initiative . It is not enough to strike the shackles from business . The duty of statesmanship is not negative merely . It is constructive also . We must show that we ...
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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.