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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... steps . We have made too many of these already . It is time for us to grow serious . Even the most headlong of our people admit that we stand in the presence of a real crisis , while , so far as we can see , there is no hand at the helm ...
... steps . We have made too many of these already . It is time for us to grow serious . Even the most headlong of our people admit that we stand in the presence of a real crisis , while , so far as we can see , there is no hand at the helm ...
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... step in the series has been planned so as to make the next seem inevitable . To stop to reconsider our steps is made to appear as backing down . The American people will not back down and on this fact the whole movement depends . This ...
... step in the series has been planned so as to make the next seem inevitable . To stop to reconsider our steps is made to appear as backing down . The American people will not back down and on this fact the whole movement depends . This ...
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... step . This will act against its highest efficiency . The forms of self - government are not adapted to the government of others . The very strength of the Republic unfits it for complicated tasks , because its power can be brought at ...
... step . This will act against its highest efficiency . The forms of self - government are not adapted to the government of others . The very strength of the Republic unfits it for complicated tasks , because its power can be brought at ...
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... step since the beginning has the American people been consulted . At no point has consultation been possible . In managing affairs like this there can be no divided councils . The responsible head must rule , and it matters not a straw ...
... step since the beginning has the American people been consulted . At no point has consultation been possible . In managing affairs like this there can be no divided councils . The responsible head must rule , and it matters not a straw ...
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... step toward good government , a step by which the best government possible to men must be reached in time . Even the blunders and corruptions of democracy make for good government at last . When the people find out what hurts them ...
... step toward good government , a step by which the best government possible to men must be reached in time . Even the blunders and corruptions of democracy make for good government at last . When the people find out what hurts them ...
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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.