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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... unless he is able to take his own part . This is just as true of nations as of men . A nation that cannot take its own part is at times almost as fertile a source of mischief in the world at large as is a nation which does wrong to ...
... unless he is able to take his own part . This is just as true of nations as of men . A nation that cannot take its own part is at times almost as fertile a source of mischief in the world at large as is a nation which does wrong to ...
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... Unless we are thorough - going Americans and unless our patriotism is part of the very fiber of our being , we can neither serve God nor take our own part . Whatever may be the case in an infinitely remote future , at present no people ...
... Unless we are thorough - going Americans and unless our patriotism is part of the very fiber of our being , we can neither serve God nor take our own part . Whatever may be the case in an infinitely remote future , at present no people ...
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... in that spirit of commer- cial opportunism which refuses to do duty to oth- ers unless there is in it pecuniary profit for one- self . This combination of mean timidity and mean commercial 23 FEAR GOD AND TAKE YOUR OWN PART.
... in that spirit of commer- cial opportunism which refuses to do duty to oth- ers unless there is in it pecuniary profit for one- self . This combination of mean timidity and mean commercial 23 FEAR GOD AND TAKE YOUR OWN PART.
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... unless there is also sound relationship among our own citizens within our own ranks . Let us in- sist on the thorough Americanization of the newcomers to our shores , and let us also insist on the thorough Americanization of ourselves ...
... unless there is also sound relationship among our own citizens within our own ranks . Let us in- sist on the thorough Americanization of the newcomers to our shores , and let us also insist on the thorough Americanization of ourselves ...
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... unless we feel with all our hearts devotion to this country , unless we are Americans and nothing else , and unless in time of peace by universal military training , by insistence upon the obligations of every man and every woman to ...
... unless we feel with all our hearts devotion to this country , unless we are Americans and nothing else , and unless in time of peace by universal military training , by insistence upon the obligations of every man and every woman to ...
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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.