Democracy Today: An American InterpretationChristian Frederick Gauss Scott, Foresman, 1917 - 310 страница |
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... once they had it in their possession . Lecky felt this same distrust . The quest for power in our democracy has only too often been selfish . If the people wish to exercise the great prerogatives of government , they must also assume ...
... once they had it in their possession . Lecky felt this same distrust . The quest for power in our democracy has only too often been selfish . If the people wish to exercise the great prerogatives of government , they must also assume ...
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... once told by the late eminent naturalist , Agassiz , that when he was to deliver his first lecture as professor ( at Zürich , I believe ) he had grave doubts of his ability to occupy the prescribed three 20 Democracy Today.
... once told by the late eminent naturalist , Agassiz , that when he was to deliver his first lecture as professor ( at Zürich , I believe ) he had grave doubts of his ability to occupy the prescribed three 20 Democracy Today.
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... once they have found a sonorous Greek naine to abuse it by . There is something consolatory also , something flattering to their sense of personal dignity , and to that conceit of singularity which is the natural recoil from our uneasy ...
... once they have found a sonorous Greek naine to abuse it by . There is something consolatory also , something flattering to their sense of personal dignity , and to that conceit of singularity which is the natural recoil from our uneasy ...
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... once for all that compromise makes a good umbrella but a poor roof ; that it is a temporary expedient , often wise in party politics , almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship . Has not the trial of democracy in America proved , on the ...
... once for all that compromise makes a good umbrella but a poor roof ; that it is a temporary expedient , often wise in party politics , almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship . Has not the trial of democracy in America proved , on the ...
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... once made them profitable to the English ancestors of the men who are deserting them . To have achieved even these prosaic results ( if you choose to call them so ) , and that out of materials the most discordant , I might say the most ...
... once made them profitable to the English ancestors of the men who are deserting them . To have achieved even these prosaic results ( if you choose to call them so ) , and that out of materials the most discordant , I might say the most ...
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Страница 229 - To establish post offices and post roads; To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries; To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court; To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and...
Страница 215 - An independent Polish state should be erected which should include the territories inhabited by indisputably Polish populations, which should be assured a free and secure access to the sea, and whose political and economic independence and territorial integrity should be guaranteed by international covenant.
Страница 109 - I am proposing, as it were, that the nations should with one accord adopt the doctrine of President Monroe as the doctrine of the world: That no nation should seek to extend its...
Страница 125 - The new policy has swept every restriction aside. Vessels of every kind, whatever their flag, their character, their cargo, their destination, their errand, have been ruthlessly sent to the bottom without warning and without thought of help or mercy for those on board, the vessels of friendly neutrals, along with those of belligerents.
Страница 212 - A free, open-minded and absolutely impartial adjustment of all Colonial claims based upon a strict observance of the principle that in determining all such questions of sovereignty, the interests of the populations concerned must have equal weight with the equitable claims of the government whose title is to be determined.
Страница 215 - A general association of nations must be formed under specific covenants for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike.
Страница 134 - We are accepting this challenge of hostile purpose because we know that in such a government, following such methods, we can never have a friend; and that in the presence of its organized power, always lying in wait to accomplish we know not what purpose, there can be no assured security for the democratic governments of the world.
Страница 129 - In carrying out the measures by which these things are to be accomplished, we should keep constantly in mind the wisdom of interfering as little as possible in our own preparation and in the equipment of our own military forces with the duty — for it will be a very practical duty — of supplying the nations already at war with Germany with the materials which they can obtain only from us or by our assistance.
Страница 138 - To such a task we can dedicate our lives and our fortunes, everything that we are and everything that we have, with the pride of those who know that the day has come when America is privileged to spend her blood and her might for the principles that gave her birth and happiness and the peace which she has treasured. God helping her, she can do no other.
Страница 126 - It is a war against all nations. American ships have been sunk, American lives taken, in ways which it has stirred us very deeply to learn of, but the ships and people of other neutral and friendly nations have been sunk and overwhelmed in the waters in the same way. There has been no discrimination. The challenge is to all mankind.