Imperialism and LibertyRonbroke Press, 1899 - 491 страница |
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... seized the opportunity of our Spanish war to strike another blow for freedom . After the war the weakened Spaniards could no more have conquered them than they SPAIN'S EMPTY SOVEREIGNTY . 43 COULD SPAIN SELL US SOVEREIGNTY?
... seized the opportunity of our Spanish war to strike another blow for freedom . After the war the weakened Spaniards could no more have conquered them than they SPAIN'S EMPTY SOVEREIGNTY . 43 COULD SPAIN SELL US SOVEREIGNTY?
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... Spanish and then turn upon us . The result in either case would have been disastrous to our arms and prestige . The whole world would have looked upon our Spanish war differently if we had been driven to fight the natives be- fore the ...
... Spanish and then turn upon us . The result in either case would have been disastrous to our arms and prestige . The whole world would have looked upon our Spanish war differently if we had been driven to fight the natives be- fore the ...
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... Spanish , our conquest of the islands would not have been the easy task that it was . The Filipino leaders have not shown themselves lacking in intelligence . Had they taken an attitude of enmity to both combatants , the land battle at ...
... Spanish , our conquest of the islands would not have been the easy task that it was . The Filipino leaders have not shown themselves lacking in intelligence . Had they taken an attitude of enmity to both combatants , the land battle at ...
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... Spanish sovereignty or to enter Manila Bay and destroy the Spanish sea power there ? We did not ask these ; we were obeying a higher moral obligation , which rested on us , and which did not require anybody's consent . We were doing our ...
... Spanish sovereignty or to enter Manila Bay and destroy the Spanish sea power there ? We did not ask these ; we were obeying a higher moral obligation , which rested on us , and which did not require anybody's consent . We were doing our ...
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... Spanish sovereignty was in progress we could not ask the Filipinos ' views , ' he says . Very well , grant this . " Nor can we ask it now , " he goes on . " Indeed , can any one tell me in what form it could be marshaled and ascertained ...
... Spanish sovereignty was in progress we could not ask the Filipinos ' views , ' he says . Very well , grant this . " Nor can we ask it now , " he goes on . " Indeed , can any one tell me in what form it could be marshaled and ascertained ...
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Страница 121 - That the United States hereby disclaims any disposition or intention to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction, or control over said island except for the pacification thereof, and asserts its determination when that is accomplished to leave the government and control of the island to its people.
Страница 480 - ... that thou mayest love the Lord thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him : for he is thy life, and the length of thy days : that thou mayest dwell in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
Страница 185 - ... of the people is so sprightly up, as that it has not only wherewith to guard well its own freedom and safety, but to spare...
Страница 479 - O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!
Страница 51 - Finally, it should be the earnest and paramount aim of the military administration to win the confidence, respect and affection of the inhabitants of the Philippines by assuring them in every possible way that full measure of individual rights and liberties which is the heritage of free peoples, and by proving to them that the mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation, substituting the mild sway of justice and right for arbitrary rule.
Страница 434 - For, in order to prove that the Americans have no right to their liberties, we are every day endeavouring to subvert the maxims which preserve the whole spirit of our own.
Страница 478 - But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him: for the LORD thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into thy hand, as appeareth this day.
Страница 185 - Last, that it will be primely to the discouragement of all learning and the stop of truth, not only by dis-exercising and blunting our abilities in what we know already, but by hindering and cropping the discovery that might be yet further made, both in religious and civil wisdom.
Страница 182 - It cannot be denied, but that he who is made judge to sit upon the birth or death of books, whether they may be wafted into this world or not, had need to be a man above the common measure, both studious, learned, and judicious...