Fear God and Take Your Own PartGeorge H. Doran Company, 1916 - 400 pages "This book is based primarily upon, and mainly consists of, matter contained in articles [published] ... in the Metropolitan magazine during the past fourteen months. It also contains or is based upon an article contributed to the Wheeler Syndicate, a paper submitted to the American Sociological Congress and one or two speeches and public statements. In addition there is much new matter."--Introductory note. |
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... revolutionary stock , proved loyal to the great ideals of union and of liberty . I am myself partly of German blood . I believe that this country has more to learn from Ger- many than from any other nation - and this as regards fealty ...
... revolutionary stock , proved loyal to the great ideals of union and of liberty . I am myself partly of German blood . I believe that this country has more to learn from Ger- many than from any other nation - and this as regards fealty ...
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... Revolution France was our only real friend . During the time of the Civil War Russia was the only European nation which showed us any sym- pathy whatever . When as a nation we displayed a purpose to champion international piracy in the ...
... Revolution France was our only real friend . During the time of the Civil War Russia was the only European nation which showed us any sym- pathy whatever . When as a nation we displayed a purpose to champion international piracy in the ...
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... Revolutionary War masses of German mercenaries fought against us . I have certainly never hesitated , and at this moment am not hesi- tating , to condemn my own country and my own countrymen when it and they are wrong . would just as ...
... Revolutionary War masses of German mercenaries fought against us . I have certainly never hesitated , and at this moment am not hesi- tating , to condemn my own country and my own countrymen when it and they are wrong . would just as ...
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Theodore Roosevelt. were all Americans and nothing else . General Wood , of Revolutionary stock , started Cuba on the road to self - government ; General Barry , of Irish parentage , commanded the army that res- cued Cuba from revolution ...
Theodore Roosevelt. were all Americans and nothing else . General Wood , of Revolutionary stock , started Cuba on the road to self - government ; General Barry , of Irish parentage , commanded the army that res- cued Cuba from revolution ...
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... Revolutionary stock was predominantly English , but by no means exclusively so ; for many of the descendants of the Revolutionary New Yorkers , Pennsylvanians and Georgians have , like myself , strains of Dutch , French , Scotch , Irish ...
... Revolutionary stock was predominantly English , but by no means exclusively so ; for many of the descendants of the Revolutionary New Yorkers , Pennsylvanians and Georgians have , like myself , strains of Dutch , French , Scotch , Irish ...
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Page viii - In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me: As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.
Page vii - His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps His day is marching on. I have read a fiery gospel, writ in burnished rows of steel; "As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal; Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel, Since God is marching on.
Page 120 - This task of championing the integrity of neutral rights, which have received the sanction of the civilized world against the lawless conduct of belligerents arising out of the bitterness of the great conflict which is now wasting the countries of Europe, the United States unhesitatingly assumes, and to the accomplishment of that task it will devote its energies...
Page 360 - The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities...
Page 154 - A neutral Power is not bound to prevent the export or transit, for the use of either belligerent, of arms, ammunition, or, in general, of anything which could be of use to an army or fleet.
Page vii - Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord; He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible, swift sword. His truth is marching on.
Page 311 - From this treaty it can not be supposed that New Granada invited" the United States to become a party to the intestine troubles of that government, nor did the United States become bound to take sides in the domestic broils of New Granada. The United States did guarantee New Granada in the sovereignty and property over the territory. This was as against other and foreign governments.
Page 350 - If one of the contracting parties should be engaged in war with any other power, the free intercourse and commerce of the subjects or citizens of the party remaining neutral with the belligerent powers shall not be interrupted. On the contrary, in that case, as in full peace, the vessels of the neutral party may navigate freely to and from the ports and on the coasts of the belligerent parties, free vessels making free goods...
Page 306 - That should the President be unable to obtain for the United States a satisfactory title to the property of the New Panama Canal Company and the control of the necessary territory of the Republic of Colombia and the rights mentioned in sections one and two of this Act, within a reasonable time and upon reasonable terms...
Page 165 - ... if when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people ; then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning ; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head.