Democracy Today: An American InterpretationChristian Gauss Scott, Foresman, 1917 - 310 страница |
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... reason we have included the most important utterances made by President Wilson during the war in that period when we were forced to fight to " make the world safe for democracy " ; and the War Message and the Flag Day Address are ...
... reason we have included the most important utterances made by President Wilson during the war in that period when we were forced to fight to " make the world safe for democracy " ; and the War Message and the Flag Day Address are ...
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... reason- able contrivance for occupying the attention of the country , and is certainly a better way of settling questions than by push of pike . Yet , if one should ask it why it should not rather be called government by gabble , it ...
... reason- able contrivance for occupying the attention of the country , and is certainly a better way of settling questions than by push of pike . Yet , if one should ask it why it should not rather be called government by gabble , it ...
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... reason , per- haps , that whoever looks down in search of her sees his own image at the bottom , and is persuaded not only that he has seen the goddess , but that she is far better looking than he had imagined . The arguments against ...
... reason , per- haps , that whoever looks down in search of her sees his own image at the bottom , and is persuaded not only that he has seen the goddess , but that she is far better looking than he had imagined . The arguments against ...
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... reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run . It is , perhaps , true that , by effacing the principle of passive obedience , democracy , ill understood , has slackened the spring of that ductility to discipline ...
... reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run . It is , perhaps , true that , by effacing the principle of passive obedience , democracy , ill understood , has slackened the spring of that ductility to discipline ...
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... . We have fallen upon a time when it behooves every thoughtful citizen , whose political beliefs are based on reason and who cares enough for his manliness and duty to save them from barter , to realize The Message of Washington 55.
... . We have fallen upon a time when it behooves every thoughtful citizen , whose political beliefs are based on reason and who cares enough for his manliness and duty to save them from barter , to realize The Message of Washington 55.
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