 | Richard F. Hamilton, Holger H. Herwig - 2003 - 558 страница
...that "the right is more precious than peace" and that Americans would be fighting "for democracy, ... for a universal dominion of right by such a concert...happiness and the peace which she has treasured." This was an appropriately American call to arms, echoing the signers of the Declaration of Independence's... | |
 | Thomas Fleming - 2008 - 352 страница
...a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free. To such a task we can dedicate our lives...that we have, with the pride of those who know that America is privileged to spend her blood and her might for the principles that gave her birth and happiness... | |
 | Linda Raine Robertson - 2003 - 520 страница
...first panel is a color portrait of Woodrow Wilson, with a reproduction of his handwritten message: "The day has come when America is privileged to spend...principles that gave her birth and happiness and the peace that she has treasured. God helping her, she can do no other." The Ladies Home Journal was highly conscious... | |
 | Marshall Cavendish Corporation - 2002 - 150 страница
...a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free. To such a task we can dedicate our lives and our fortunes, everything we are and everything that we have, with the pride of those who know that the day has come when America... | |
 | John Kampfner - 2003 - 392 страница
...sent his forces into the First World War, dedicated America to making the world safe for democracy, 'to spend her blood and her might for the principles that gave her birth. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no dominion. We are but one of the champions of the rights... | |
 | Ormond Writers League Staff - 2003 - 200 страница
...headed by Germany because: "The world must be made safe for democracy." He ended his speech by saying, "To such a task we can dedicate our lives and our fortunes, with the pride of those who know that the day has come when America is privileged to spend her blood... | |
 | Richard F. Hamilton, Holger H. Herwig - 2004 - 292 страница
...that "the right is more precious than peace" and that Americans would be fighting "for democracy, ... for a universal dominion of right by such a concert...a task we can dedicate our lives and our fortunes " Wilson carried substantial majorities in both houses of Congress with him. The war resolution passed... | |
 | Lewis H. Lapham - 2004 - 196 страница
...thousand American soldiers in the mud of France, the sacrifice could be written off to America's privilege "to spend her blood and her might for the principles that gave her birth."* Against the will and better judgment of 90 percent of the American people, the United States entered... | |
 | 2004 - 932 страница
...Nurses devote themselves to the care of the sick. Dedicate connotes a solemn, often formal commitment: "To such a task we can dedicate our lives and our fortunes" ( Woodrow Wilsonl. Consecrate suggests sacred commitment: His entire life is consecrated to science.... | |
 | Joy Hakim - 2003 - 438 страница
...makes it clear: the United States is not entering the war for personal gain. He finishes with emotion: The day has come when America is privileged to spend her blood . . . for the principles that gave her birth and happiness, . . . God helping her, she can do no other.... | |
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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... 
