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... if less urged by moral obligations , or invited by friendly dispositions on the part of the United States , would have found , in its true interest alone , a sufficient motive to respect their rights and their tranquillity on the ...
... if less urged by moral obligations , or invited by friendly dispositions on the part of the United States , would have found , in its true interest alone , a sufficient motive to respect their rights and their tranquillity on the ...
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The case is more difficult when it refers to a contractual obligation . Our own Government has always refused to enforce such contractual obligations on behalf of its citizens by an appeal to arms ...
The case is more difficult when it refers to a contractual obligation . Our own Government has always refused to enforce such contractual obligations on behalf of its citizens by an appeal to arms ...
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or because any special treaty obligations to which we were parties had been violated , but only because we saw the ... of a power which respected neither right nor obligation and whose very system of government flouted the rights of the ...
or because any special treaty obligations to which we were parties had been violated , but only because we saw the ... of a power which respected neither right nor obligation and whose very system of government flouted the rights of the ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | 12 Americans Speak |
| Editor | John Edwin Pomfret |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Huntington Library, 1954 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 24 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 183 pages |
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