President Wilson's State Papers and AddressesGeorge H. Doran Company, The Review of reviews Company, 1917 - 484 páginas |
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... vessels engaged in the coastwise trade of the United States from payment of tolls , and to urge upon you the justice , the wisdom , and the large policy of such a repeal with the utmost earnestness of which I am capable . In my own ...
... vessels engaged in the coastwise trade of the United States from payment of tolls , and to urge upon you the justice , the wisdom , and the large policy of such a repeal with the utmost earnestness of which I am capable . In my own ...
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... vessels or adequate machinery for the survey and charting . We have used old vessels that were not big enough or strong enough and which were so nearly unseaworthy that our inspectors would not have allowed private owners to send them ...
... vessels or adequate machinery for the survey and charting . We have used old vessels that were not big enough or strong enough and which were so nearly unseaworthy that our inspectors would not have allowed private owners to send them ...
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... vessels we build and intend to build . Part of our problem is the problem of what I may call the mobilization of the resources of the nation at the proper time if it should ever be necessary to mobilize them for national defense . We ...
... vessels we build and intend to build . Part of our problem is the problem of what I may call the mobilization of the resources of the nation at the proper time if it should ever be necessary to mobilize them for national defense . We ...
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... vessels , eight vessels of special types , and two ammunition ships . This would be a navy fitted to our needs and worthy of our traditions . But armies and instruments of war are only part of what has to be considered if we are to ...
... vessels , eight vessels of special types , and two ammunition ships . This would be a navy fitted to our needs and worthy of our traditions . But armies and instruments of war are only part of what has to be considered if we are to ...
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... all has it been negligent in recent years . Three years ago there were 182 vessels in commission in that Navy ; there are now 238. Three dreadnoughts and fifteen subor- dinate 184 Presidential Messages , Addresses and State Papers.
... all has it been negligent in recent years . Three years ago there were 182 vessels in commission in that Navy ; there are now 238. Three dreadnoughts and fifteen subor- dinate 184 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.