The Voices of Our Leaders: A Collection of Addresses Delivered by Statesmen of the United States and Her Allies in the Great WarWilliam Mather Lewis Hinds, Hayden & Eldredge, 1917 - 159 pages |
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Abraham Lincoln action allied American armies arms ARTHUR JAMEs Balfour audience Austria-Hungary autocracy battle Belgian Belgium blood cause civilization Congress democracy democratic desire Empire enemies ernment Europe faith fate feel fighting Germany flag FLAG DAY force France FREE ASSEMBLIES freedom French French Revolution gentlemen German Emperor German Empire greatest GREETINGS heart HERBERT HENRY ASQUITH honor hope human Imperial German Government industrial intrigue justice KIKUJIRO ISHII LEADERS liberty Lincoln live mankind masters memory menace ment military mind nations neutral never noble orations ourselves peace political principles proclaimed proud public speaking purpose RENE VIVIANI Republic revolution ROBERT LANSING rulers of Germany Russia sacred safe seas secure seek ships soldiers sought speaker speech spirit stand struggle submarine warfare suffering supreme things thought throughout the world tions tomb of Washington TRIBUTE United States Delivered utter vindicate VOICES whole world wish WOODROW WILSON words
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Page 21 - Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic power and to set up amongst the really free and self-governed peoples of the world such a concert of purpose and of action as will henceforth ensure the observance of those principles.
Page 22 - It was a war determined upon as wars used to be determined upon in the old, unhappy days when peoples were nowhere consulted by their rulers and wars were provoked and waged in the interest of dynasties or of little groups of ambitious men who were accustomed to use their fellow men as pawns and tools.
Page 18 - I advise that the Congress declare the recent course of the Imperial German Government to be in fact nothing less than war against the Government and people of the United States ; that it formally accept the status of belligerent which has thus been thrust upon it...
Page 19 - I hope, so far as they can equitably be sustained by the present generation, by well-conceived taxation. I say sustained so far as may be equitable by taxation because it seems to me that it would be most unwise to base the credits which will now be necessary entirely on money borrowed. It is our duty, I most respectfully urge, to protect our people so far as we may against the very serious hardships and evils which would be likely to arise out of the inflation which would be produced by vast loans.
Page 14 - International law had its origin in the attempt to set up some law which would be respected and observed upon the seas, where no nation had right of dominion and where lay the free highways of the world.
Page 23 - The autocracy that crowned the summit of her political structure, long as it had stood and terrible as was the reality of its power, was not in fact Russian in origin, character, or purpose...
Page 25 - ... Government that did what it pleased and told its people nothing. But they have played their part in serving to convince us at last that that Government entertains no real friendship for us, and means to act against our peace and security at its convenience. That it means to stir up enemies against us at our very doors the intercepted note to the German Minister at Mexico City is eloquent evidence.
Page 18 - It will involve the organization and mobilization of all the material resources of the country to supply the materials of war and serve the incidental needs of the nation in the most abundant and yet the most economical and efficient way possible.
Page 16 - When I addressed the Congress on the 26th of February last I thought that it would suffice to assert our neutral rights with arms, our right to use the seas against unlawful interference, our right to keep our people safe against unlawful violence. But armed neutrality, it now appears, is impracticable. Because submarines are in effect outlaws...