The Question of the Philippines: An Address Delivered Before the Graduate Club of Leland Stanford Junior University, on February 14, 1899 |
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... ment , which we try to destroy , is the most capable , enlightened , and just these Islands have ever known . These germs of civic liberty constitute the most precious product of the Philippines . But what- ever his character or motives ...
... ment , which we try to destroy , is the most capable , enlightened , and just these Islands have ever known . These germs of civic liberty constitute the most precious product of the Philippines . But what- ever his character or motives ...
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... ment on each . And , first , I place those which claim some sort of moral validity , though I acknowledge no basis for such claim . For the only morality a nation can know is justice . To be fair as between man and man , to look after ...
... ment on each . And , first , I place those which claim some sort of moral validity , though I acknowledge no basis for such claim . For the only morality a nation can know is justice . To be fair as between man and man , to look after ...
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... ment . * Several questions arise at once . whom are they held ? By what incurred ? What are those obligations ? To responsibility have they been To the first question we may get this answer . We are under obligations to see that the ...
... ment . * Several questions arise at once . whom are they held ? By what incurred ? What are those obligations ? To responsibility have they been To the first question we may get this answer . We are under obligations to see that the ...
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... ment , and might logically as well join Canada as a dependency of Great Britain . The hope that we may do so is the source of much English " good - will . ” If we feel edgewise toward Germany * or if Germany is unfriendly toward us , we ...
... ment , and might logically as well join Canada as a dependency of Great Britain . The hope that we may do so is the source of much English " good - will . ” If we feel edgewise toward Germany * or if Germany is unfriendly toward us , we ...
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... ment should be equally respected . In no case has she changed the form however much she may have altered the administration . Suc- cess in the control of the tropical races no nation has yet achieved , for no one has yet solved the ...
... ment should be equally respected . In no case has she changed the form however much she may have altered the administration . Suc- cess in the control of the tropical races no nation has yet achieved , for no one has yet solved the ...
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Page 11 - That the United States hereby disclaims any disposition or intention to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction, or control over said island except for the pacification thereof, and asserts its determination, when that is accomplished, to leave the government and control of the island to its people.
Page 39 - Abraham Lincoln, give us a MAN! "Is there never one in all the land, One on whose might the Cause may lean? Are all the common ones so grand, And all the titled ones so mean?
Page 38 - They meant to set up a standard maxim for free society, which should be familiar to all, and revered by all, constantly looked to, constantly labored for, and even though never perfectly attained, constantly approximated, and thereby constantly spreading and deepening its influence and augmenting the happiness and value of life to all people of all colors everywhere.
Page 55 - If none of these are attainable, even a Sancho Panza would do. Send him out with no more instructions than the knight of La Mancha gave Sancho — to fear God and do his duty. Put him on his metal. Promise him the respect and praise of all good men if he does well ; and if he calls to his help intelligent persons who understand the cultivation of soils and the management of men, in half a score of years Dominica would be the brightest gem of the Antilles. From America, from England, from...
Page 55 - Dominica will be the brightest gem of the Antilles . . . The leading of the wise few, the willing obedience of the many, is the beginning and end of all right action. Secure this and you secure everything. Fail to secure this and be your liberties as wide as you can make them, no success is possible.
Page 54 - If the Antilles are ever to thrive, each of them also should have some trained and skilful man at its head, unembarrassed by local elected assemblies. The whites have become so weak that they would welcome the abolition of such assemblies. The blacks do not care for politics, and would be pleased to see them swept away to-morrow if they were governed wisely and fairly. Of course, in that case it would be necessary to appoint governors who would command...
Page 46 - Filipinos as if they were a painted picture, an amount of mere matter in our way. They are too remote from us ever to be realized as they exist in their inwardness.