The Voices of Our Leaders: A Collection of Addresses Delivered by Statesmen of the United States and Her Allies in the Great WarWilliam Mather Lewis Hinds, Hayden & Eldredge, 1917 - 159 страница |
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... greatest good will come from the study of present - day examples . A century ago the speaker thought only of the audience before him : to - day , if he is a distinguished man , the " breakfast table . audience " with the morning paper ...
... greatest good will come from the study of present - day examples . A century ago the speaker thought only of the audience before him : to - day , if he is a distinguished man , the " breakfast table . audience " with the morning paper ...
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... greatest business , and professional assets that a man can possess . How many men have ex- claimed " I would give a thousand dollars if I had the power of expressing myself strongly before a company of men . " Two men may have the same ...
... greatest business , and professional assets that a man can possess . How many men have ex- claimed " I would give a thousand dollars if I had the power of expressing myself strongly before a company of men . " Two men may have the same ...
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... much greater volume to make himself heard than if his words are pronounced with deliberation . In beginning a speech that listener at the greatest distance from the speaker should be addressed first . XVI THE VOICES OF OUR LEADERS.
... much greater volume to make himself heard than if his words are pronounced with deliberation . In beginning a speech that listener at the greatest distance from the speaker should be addressed first . XVI THE VOICES OF OUR LEADERS.
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... greatest distance from the speaker should be addressed first . By adopting this method the voice is instinctively raised to the proper volume , and everyone in the room hears easily . Nothing so makes for inattention in an au- dience as ...
... greatest distance from the speaker should be addressed first . By adopting this method the voice is instinctively raised to the proper volume , and everyone in the room hears easily . Nothing so makes for inattention in an au- dience as ...
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... greatest things that remain to be done must be done with the whole world for stage and in coöperation with the wide and universal forces of mankind , and we are making our spirits ready for those things . They will follow in the ...
... greatest things that remain to be done must be done with the whole world for stage and in coöperation with the wide and universal forces of mankind , and we are making our spirits ready for those things . They will follow in the ...
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Abraham Lincoln action allied American armies arms ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR audience Austria-Hungary autocracy battle Belgian Belgium blood cause Chamber of Deputies civilization Congress democracy democratic desire Empire enemies ernment Europe faith fate feel fighting Germany flag force France FREE ASSEMBLIES freedom French French Revolution gentlemen German Emperor German Empire greatest GREETINGS heart HERBERT HENRY ASQUITH honor hope human Imperial German Government industrial intrigue justice KIKUJIRO ISHII liberty Lincoln live mankind masters memory menace ment military mind nations neutral never noble orations ourselves peace political principles proclaimed proud purpose RENE VIVIANI Republic revolution ROBERT LANSING rulers of Germany Russia sacred safe seas secure seek ships soldiers sought speaker speech spirit stand struggle submarine warfare suffering supreme things thought throughout the world tions tomb of Washington UDINE United States Delivered utter vindicate voice whole world wish WOODROW WILSON words
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Страница 21 - Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic power and to set up amongst the really free and self-governed peoples of the world such a concert of purpose and of action as will henceforth ensure the observance of those principles.
Страница 22 - It was a war determined upon as wars used to be determined upon in the old, unhappy days when peoples were nowhere consulted by their rulers and wars were provoked and waged in the interest of dynasties or of little groups of ambitious men who were accustomed to use their fellow men as pawns and tools.
Страница 18 - I advise that the Congress declare the recent course of the Imperial German Government to be in fact nothing less than war against the Government and people of the United States ; that it formally accept the status of belligerent which has thus been thrust upon it...
Страница 19 - 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.
Страница 14 - International law had its origin in the attempt to set up some law which would be respected and observed upon the seas, where no nation had right of dominion and where lay the free highways of the world.
Страница 23 - The autocracy that crowned the summit of her political structure, long as it had stood and terrible as was the reality of its power, was not in fact Russian in origin, character, or purpose...
Страница 25 - ... Government that did what it pleased and told its people nothing. But they have played their part in serving to convince us at last that that Government entertains no real friendship for us, and means to act against our peace and security at its convenience. That it means to stir up enemies against us at our very doors the intercepted note to the German Minister at Mexico City is eloquent evidence.
Страница 18 - It will involve the organization and mobilization of all the material resources of the country to supply the materials of war and serve the incidental needs of the nation in the most abundant and yet the most economical and efficient way possible.
Страница 16 - When I addressed the Congress on the 26th of February last I thought that it would suffice to assert our neutral rights with arms, our right to use the seas against unlawful interference, our right to keep our people safe against unlawful violence. But armed neutrality, it now appears, is impracticable. Because submarines are in effect outlaws...