Year Book of the Pennsylvania Society of New York

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Страница 41 - 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, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.
Страница 38 - The war was started by Germany. Her authorities deny that they started it, but I am willing to let the statement I have just made await the verdict of history. And the thing that needs to be explained is why Germany started the war. Remember what the position of Germany in the world was — as enviable a position as any nation has ever occupied. The whole world stood at admiration of her wonderful intellectual and material achievements.
Страница 32 - Dispel this cloud, the light of heaven restore, Give me TO SEE, — and Ajax asks no more.
Страница 52 - France embodies all of loveliness and all of valor ; beauty is her handmaiden and strength her shield bearer, and the shining courage of her daughters has matched the courage of her dauntless sons. For three and a half terrible years she has walked, high of heart, through the valley of the shadow. Her body is in torture, but her forehead is alight with the beauty of the morning. Never in all history has there been such...
Страница 28 - V say to his soldiers on the eve of Agincourt — "We band of brothers For he who sheds his blood this day with me He is my brother.
Страница 40 - But take it for your country as a token that with all the changing manners of the passing years, with all the vast and welcome influx of new citizens from all the countries of the earth, Americans have not forgotten their fathers and their fathers
Страница 38 - Antwerp is most essentially a German port and the main outlet of the trade of western Germany. That Antwerp should not belong to Germany is as much an anomaly as if New Orleans and the Mississippi delta had been excluded from the Louisiana Purchase, or as if 'New York had remained English after the War of Independence.
Страница 52 - Never in all history has there been such a steadfast loyalty in the doing of dangerous duty, such devotion to country, such splendor of service and of sacrifice, and great shall be her reward, for she has saved the soul of the world.
Страница 41 - The world must be safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon trusted foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquests and no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, and no material compensation for sacrifices we shall freely make.
Страница 199 - BRADDOCK'S BATTLE FIELD SEVEN MILES FROM PITTSBURGH THIS TABLET MARKS THE FARTHEST POINT WEST REACHED BY THE ENGLISH ARMY ON THEIR MARCH TOWARD FORT DUQUESNE. HERE THEY WERE ATTACKED JULY 9. 1755, BY THE FRENCH AND INDIANS AND DRIVEN BACK ACROSS THE MONONGAHELA RIVER. GEORGE WASHINGTON. THEN 23 YEARS OLD FOUGHT IN THIS BATTLE ERECTED 1917, THAT YEAR BEING THE SOTH ANNIVERSARY OF BRADDOCK BOROUGH.

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