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There are kinds of peace which are highly undesirable , which are in the long run as destructive as any war . Tyrants and oppressors have many times made a wilderness and called it peace . Many times peoples who were slothful or timid ...
There are kinds of peace which are highly undesirable , which are in the long run as destructive as any war . Tyrants and oppressors have many times made a wilderness and called it peace . Many times peoples who were slothful or timid ...
Page 134
It had been our privilege to formulate the principles which were accepted as the basis of the peace , but they had been accepted , not because we had come in to hasten and assure the victory and insisted upon them , but because they ...
It had been our privilege to formulate the principles which were accepted as the basis of the peace , but they had been accepted , not because we had come in to hasten and assure the victory and insisted upon them , but because they ...
Page 139
They saw it as the main object of the peace , as the only thing that could complete it or make it worth while . They saw it as the hope of the world , and that hope they did not dare to disappoint . Shall we or any other free people ...
They saw it as the main object of the peace , as the only thing that could complete it or make it worth while . They saw it as the hope of the world , and that hope they did not dare to disappoint . Shall we or any other free people ...
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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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