 A steadfast concert for peace can never be maintained except by a partnership of democratic nations. No autocratic Government could be trusted to keep faith within it or observe its covenants.  Current History - Страница 1951917Пуни преглед - О овој књизи
 | Jim F. Watts, Fred L. Israel - 2000 - 416 страница
...where public opinion commands and insists upon full information concerning all the nation's affairs. A steadfast concert for peace can never be maintained...it or observe its covenants. It must be a league of honour, a partnership of opinion. Intrigue would eat its vitals away; the plottings of inner circles... | |
 | Heidi H. Hobbs - 2000 - 270 страница
...of April 2, 1917, he declared that, A steadfast concert for peace can never be maintained except by partnership of democratic nations. No autocratic government...must be a league of honor, a partnership of opinion. . . . Only free people can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end and prefer the... | |
 | Michael Cox, G. John Ikenberry, Takashi Inoguchi - 2000 - 372 страница
...German people, but with their military dictators who had brought war to Europe. 'A steadfast concert of peace can never be maintained except by a partnership...be trusted to keep faith within it or observe its covenants.'20 Wilson's claim was just the most emphatic version of a long tradition in American diplomacy... | |
 | Indian Council of Social Science Research - 2000 - 194 страница
...Woodrow Wilson also declared, in his 1917 message to the US Congress, that "a steadfast concert of peace can never be maintained except by a partnership of democratic nations." Similar ideas are being expressed by contemporary American and Indian leaders. This historical optimism... | |
 | John Milton Cooper - 2001 - 476 страница
...had in mind when I addressed the Senate on the twenty-second of January last." But now, he insisted, "a steadfast concert for peace can never be maintained except by a partnership of democratic nations. . . . It must be a league of honour, a partnership of opinion." Wilson pledged that we shall fight... | |
 | Otfried Nippold - 2003 - 258 страница
...nations had had a democratic form of government. And in his message of April 2, 1917, Wilson says : ' A steadfast concert for peace can never be maintained except by a partnership of democratic nations. Only free peoples can preserve their democracy. . . . Peace must be planted upon the tested foundations... | |
 | John B. Judis - 2010 - 266 страница
...public opinion." He reiterated the point in his speech the next April asking for a declaration of war. "A steadfast concert for peace can never be maintained...to keep faith within it or observe its covenants." 29 Wilson the political scientist might have produced a systematic account of these causes of war.... | |
 | Prince Mario - 2006 - 108 страница
...ambitious men who were accustomed to use their fellow men as prawns and tools. No autocratic ghost government could be trusted to keep faith within it or observe its covenants. It must be a league of honour, a partnership of opinion. One of the things that has served to convince us that ghost civil... | |
 | Michael Lind - 2006 - 304 страница
...another.28 Some American statesmen have endorsed one or both of these ideas. Woodrow Wilson declared: "A steadfast concert for peace can never be maintained except by a partnership of democratic nations."29 Bill Clinton claimed that promoting democracy leads to peace because "democracies don't... | |
 | Anne R. Pierce - 336 страница
...of purpose and of action as will henceforth insure the observance of those principles." He insisted: "A steadfast concert for peace can never be maintained...autocratic government "could be trusted to keep faith with it or observe its covenants."23 In light of the themes of mission and power, this is very interesting.... | |
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