Landmarks of Liberty: The Growth of American Political Ideals as Recorded in Speeches from Otis to Hughes, Ed. with Introduction and Notes |
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... Russia or from South Carolina . Will the honorable senator tell me it is our duty to stay here , within fifteen miles of the enemy seeking to advance upon us every hour , and talk about nice questions of constitutional construction as ...
... Russia or from South Carolina . Will the honorable senator tell me it is our duty to stay here , within fifteen miles of the enemy seeking to advance upon us every hour , and talk about nice questions of constitutional construction as ...
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... Russia . France de- veloped a republican form of government , and her people like the people of England decided for them- selves how they were to be ruled . In Germany , on the other hand , a Prussian military clique , under the ...
... Russia . France de- veloped a republican form of government , and her people like the people of England decided for them- selves how they were to be ruled . In Germany , on the other hand , a Prussian military clique , under the ...
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... Russia , giving as her reason the statement that the latter nation was begin- ning to mobilize . War with France was the inevitable outcome . Ger- man military leaders knew that the theater of war would be west of the Rhine and pre ...
... Russia , giving as her reason the statement that the latter nation was begin- ning to mobilize . War with France was the inevitable outcome . Ger- man military leaders knew that the theater of war would be west of the Rhine and pre ...
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... Russia , with whom , in days gone by , we have had in various parts of the world occasion for constant friction , and now and again for possible conflict . Those new and better relations , based in the first instance upon business THE ...
... Russia , with whom , in days gone by , we have had in various parts of the world occasion for constant friction , and now and again for possible conflict . Those new and better relations , based in the first instance upon business THE ...
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... Russia we have as allies two of the great- est powers of the world engaged with us in a common cause , who do not mean to separate themselves from us any more than we mean to separate ourselves from them . We have upon the seas the ...
... Russia we have as allies two of the great- est powers of the world engaged with us in a common cause , who do not mean to separate themselves from us any more than we mean to separate ourselves from them . We have upon the seas the ...
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