Imperial Democracy: A Study of the Relation of Government by the People, Equality Before the Law, and Other Tenets of Democracy, to the Demands of a Vigorous Foreign Policy and Other Demands of Imperial Dominion |
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... Manila , Havana , Porto Rico or the Canaries ? It is not what we can take or what we can hold . The American navy and the American army can accomplish all we ask of them with time and patience . Battles are fought to - day through ...
... Manila , Havana , Porto Rico or the Canaries ? It is not what we can take or what we can hold . The American navy and the American army can accomplish all we ask of them with time and patience . Battles are fought to - day through ...
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... Manila . In public affairs we can never attend to two things at a time . Considering our possibilities and our intentions , we have treated the Aleutian Islands as shabby as Spain has treated Cuba , and Russia has almost as good a right ...
... Manila . In public affairs we can never attend to two things at a time . Considering our possibilities and our intentions , we have treated the Aleutian Islands as shabby as Spain has treated Cuba , and Russia has almost as good a right ...
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... Manila may save us from a dozen insults , and we must have the means to win such victories . So far this would not be unmixed evil , perhaps no evil at all . But we must go farther . Imperialism de- mands the maintenance of a standing ...
... Manila may save us from a dozen insults , and we must have the means to win such victories . So far this would not be unmixed evil , perhaps no evil at all . But we must go farther . Imperialism de- mands the maintenance of a standing ...
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... Manila , Nicaragua , will be slave terri- tories for centuries to come . These people in such a cli- mate can never have self - government in the Anglo- Saxon sense . Whatever form of control we adopt , we shall be in fact slave ...
... Manila , Nicaragua , will be slave terri- tories for centuries to come . These people in such a cli- mate can never have self - government in the Anglo- Saxon sense . Whatever form of control we adopt , we shall be in fact slave ...
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... Manila , that we might forget who we are and for what we stand . In the sudden intoxi- cation of far - off victory , with the consciousness of power and courage , with the feeling that all the world is talking of us , our great stern ...
... Manila , that we might forget who we are and for what we stand . In the sudden intoxi- cation of far - off victory , with the consciousness of power and courage , with the feeling that all the world is talking of us , our great stern ...
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Page 69 - 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 14 - The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible.
Page 14 - Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities. Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course.
Page 35 - God of our fathers, known of old — Lord of our far-flung battle line — Beneath whose awful Hand we hold Dominion over palm and pine — Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget — lest we forget.
Page 35 - The tumult and the shouting dies — The captains and the kings depart — Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heart.
Page 290 - Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
Page 35 - Far-called, our navies melt away, On dune and headland sinks the fire; Lo all our pomp of yesterday Is one with Nineveh and Tyre.
Page 291 - I could name,— if ten honest men only, —ay, if one HONEST man, in this State of Massachusetts, ceasing to hold slaves, were actually to withdraw from this copartnership, and be locked up in the county jail therefor, it would be the abolition of slavery in America. For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever.
Page 243 - The concurrent regulations hereby determined with a view to the protection and preservation of the fur seals, shall remain in force until they have been, in whole or in part, abolished or modified by common agreement between the Governments of the United States and of Great Britain. The said concurrent regulations shall be submitted every five years to a new examination, so as to enable both interested Governments to consider whether, in the light of past experience, there is occasion for any modification...
Page 290 - It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful ; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.