AmericanismNational Republican Publishing Company, 1921 - 223 pages |
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... opinion of America and Europe today is agreed that the crowning mistake of the allies was failure to do that very thing . These editorials are cited because they were pioneers . They were written before public opinion was crystallized ...
... opinion of America and Europe today is agreed that the crowning mistake of the allies was failure to do that very thing . These editorials are cited because they were pioneers . They were written before public opinion was crystallized ...
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... opinion was still molten and so they caught and reflected the flaming spirit of the American people during that critical period . Yet , viewed in cold perspective , they ring true ; events have marshalled and are mar- shalling in ...
... opinion was still molten and so they caught and reflected the flaming spirit of the American people during that critical period . Yet , viewed in cold perspective , they ring true ; events have marshalled and are mar- shalling in ...
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... opinion , or a laudable zeal for public good , the base or foolish compliance of ambition , corruption or infatuation . - George Washington . Let those gentlemen who consider themselves quite too respect- able and decent to mingle in ...
... opinion , or a laudable zeal for public good , the base or foolish compliance of ambition , corruption or infatuation . - George Washington . Let those gentlemen who consider themselves quite too respect- able and decent to mingle in ...
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... opinions of any man , party or faction . The only cause for which any nation has any moral right to go to war is the ... opinion , and vastly harm- ful to the American cause . To insure , hereafter , that respect for American rights ...
... opinions of any man , party or faction . The only cause for which any nation has any moral right to go to war is the ... opinion , and vastly harm- ful to the American cause . To insure , hereafter , that respect for American rights ...
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... opinion . A league of some nations to compel other nations to be guided by their principles of justice might become as subversive of its orig- inal purpose as the Holy Alliance . A league of all nations consent- ing to certain settled ...
... opinion . A league of some nations to compel other nations to be guided by their principles of justice might become as subversive of its orig- inal purpose as the Holy Alliance . A league of all nations consent- ing to certain settled ...
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Page 132 - WHEN Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night. And set the stars of glory there. She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure celestial white With streakings of the morning light; Then from his mansion in the sun She called her eagle bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land.
Page 158 - He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat: He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment seat; Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him; be jubilant, my feet! Our God is marching on.
Page 108 - It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world; so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements.
Page 101 - With the movements in this hemisphere we are of necessity more immediately connected, and by causes which must be obvious to all enlightened and impartial observers.
Page 142 - Venerable men, you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives that you might behold this joyous day. You are now where you stood fifty years ago this very hour, with your brothers and your neighbors, shoulder to shoulder, in the strife for your country. Behold, how altered! The same heavens are, indeed, over your heads; the same ocean rolla at your feet; but all else, how changed!
Page 6 - Nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest, in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter, without adequate inducement иг justification.
Page 70 - So through the night rode Paul Revere ; And so through the night went his cry of alarm • To every Middlesex village and farm, — A cry of defiance and not of fear, A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door, And a word that shall echo for evermore!
Page 103 - Let our conceptions be enlarged to the circle of our duties. Let us extend our ideas over the whole of the vast field in which we are called to act. Let our object be, our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country.
Page 132 - Flag of the free heart's hope and home, By angel hands to valor given ! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven.
Page 142 - You hear now no roar of hostile cannon, you see no mixed volumes of smoke and flame rising from burning Charlestown. The ground strewed with the dead and the dying ; the impetuous charge ; the steady and successful repulse ; the loud call to repeated assault ; the summoning of all that is manly to repeated resistance...