A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789-1922, Volume 17Bureau of national literature and art, 1917 |
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Page 8128
... possible noncombatants against the horrors of war. But although these considerations are of great weight, they alone would not under present circumstances have determined the attitude of the German Government. For in answer to the ...
... possible noncombatants against the horrors of war. But although these considerations are of great weight, they alone would not under present circumstances have determined the attitude of the German Government. For in answer to the ...
Page 8125
... possible to hope that the officer who was responsible for that act had wilfully violated his orders or had been criminally negligent in taking none of the precautions they prescribed , and that the ends of justice might be satisfied by ...
... possible to hope that the officer who was responsible for that act had wilfully violated his orders or had been criminally negligent in taking none of the precautions they prescribed , and that the ends of justice might be satisfied by ...
Page 8126
... possible precaution , both to respect the rights of neutrals and to safeguard the lives of non - combatants . In pursuance of this policy of submarine warfare against the commerce of its adversaries , thus announced and thus entered ...
... possible precaution , both to respect the rights of neutrals and to safeguard the lives of non - combatants . In pursuance of this policy of submarine warfare against the commerce of its adversaries , thus announced and thus entered ...
Page 8127
... possible for the Imperial Government so to order and control the acts of its naval commanders as to square its policy with the recognized principles of humanity as embodied in the law of nations . It has made every allowance for ...
... possible for the Imperial Government so to order and control the acts of its naval commanders as to square its policy with the recognized principles of humanity as embodied in the law of nations . It has made every allowance for ...
Page 8128
... possible noncombatants against the horrors of war . But although these considerations are of great weight , they alone would not under present circumstances have determined the attitude of the German Govern- ment . For in answer to the ...
... possible noncombatants against the horrors of war . But although these considerations are of great weight , they alone would not under present circumstances have determined the attitude of the German Govern- ment . For in answer to the ...
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Popular passages
Page 8229 - ... we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts — for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own Governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.
Page 8412 - A free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims, based upon a strict observance of the principle that in determining all such questions of sovereignty the interests of the populations concerned must have equal weight with the equitable claims of the Government whose title is to be determined.
Page 8225 - We are at the beginning of an age in which it will be insisted that the same standards of conduct and of responsibility for wrong done shall be observed among nations and their governments that are observed among the individual citizens of civilized states.
Page 8380 - That the state of war between the United States and the Imperial German Government which has thus been thrust upon the United States is hereby formally declared...
Page 8298 - ... under such regulations and orders, and subject to such limitations and exceptions as the President shall prescribe, until otherwise ordered by the President or by Congress: Provided, however, That no preference shall be given to the ports of one State over those of another.
Page 8226 - ... 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; and now it has been shaken off and the great, generous Russian people have been added, in all their naive majesty and might, to the forces that are fighting for freedom in the world, for justice, and for peace. Here is a fit, partner for a League of Honor.
Page 8416 - An act to provide further for the national security and defense by encouraging the production, conserving the supply, and controlling the distribution of those ores, metals, and minerals which have formerly been largely imported, or of which there is or may be an inadequate supply.
Page 8397 - States is hereby formally declared, and that the President be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to employ the entire naval and military forces of the United States...
Page 8203 - Unless the Imperial Government should now immediately declare and effect an abandonment of its present methods of submarine warfare against passenger and freight-carrying vessels, the Government of the United States can have no choice but to sever diplomatic relations with the German Empire altogether.
Page 8227 - ... for the ultimate peace of the world and for the liberation of its peoples, the German people included : for the rights of nations great and small and the privilege of men everywhere to choose their way of life and of obedience. The world must be made safe for democracy.