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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... need for such property and would not have taken any of it , or all of it , or any other like property as a gift . The price is high , too , when we observe that the failure of Spain placed the Islands not in our hands but in the hands ...
... need for such property and would not have taken any of it , or all of it , or any other like property as a gift . The price is high , too , when we observe that the failure of Spain placed the Islands not in our hands but in the hands ...
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... need a cheerful and successful brigand like Cecil Rhodes to pat us on the back and stiffen our failing nerves . He is not afraid . Why should we flinch from the little misdeeds we have in contem- plation ? Alfred Russell Wallace , in ...
... need a cheerful and successful brigand like Cecil Rhodes to pat us on the back and stiffen our failing nerves . He is not afraid . Why should we flinch from the little misdeeds we have in contem- plation ? Alfred Russell Wallace , in ...
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... needs and dispositions . What they need is not our freedom , but some form of paternal despotism or monarchy of their own choosing which shall command their loyalty and yet keep them in peace . " It is no man's duty to govern any other ...
... needs and dispositions . What they need is not our freedom , but some form of paternal despotism or monarchy of their own choosing which shall command their loyalty and yet keep them in peace . " It is no man's duty to govern any other ...
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... needs all that we can get out of him . This may be all the better for the black man in need of exercise , but it is the old spirit of slavery , and its disguise is the thinnest . Our Monroe Doctrine pledges us to a national interest in ...
... needs all that we can get out of him . This may be all the better for the black man in need of exercise , but it is the old spirit of slavery , and its disguise is the thinnest . Our Monroe Doctrine pledges us to a national interest in ...
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... need of eternal vigilance . Such a change makes for better government at the expense of popular choice . " This may not be republicanism , " says Lummis , speaking of the work of Diaz in Mexico , " but it is business . " The ruler of ...
... need of eternal vigilance . Such a change makes for better government at the expense of popular choice . " This may not be republicanism , " says Lummis , speaking of the work of Diaz in Mexico , " but it is business . " The ruler of ...
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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.