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... give way to the verdict of bitter experience , that to preserve the rights and liberties of everybody , clever and stupid , fortun- ate and unfortunate , requires the unceasing watchful- ness of the law . In pursuance of this wiser view ...
... give way to the verdict of bitter experience , that to preserve the rights and liberties of everybody , clever and stupid , fortun- ate and unfortunate , requires the unceasing watchful- ness of the law . In pursuance of this wiser view ...
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... give up their right to exploit the health of their children . We find it difficult to regulate the killing of even the migratory song - birds ; some States resent interference with the right of their citizens to make pot - pies out of ...
... give up their right to exploit the health of their children . We find it difficult to regulate the killing of even the migratory song - birds ; some States resent interference with the right of their citizens to make pot - pies out of ...
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... give authority to the cities of the State to establish municipal coal and wood yards , for the purpose of providing their citizens with fuel at a reasonable price . The ground for this decision lay in the fact that the judges thought it ...
... give authority to the cities of the State to establish municipal coal and wood yards , for the purpose of providing their citizens with fuel at a reasonable price . The ground for this decision lay in the fact that the judges thought it ...
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... give the Congress and State legislatures the power to determine the constitutionality of their own acts , with , perhaps , a popular referendum when desired by a sufficient number of people . This , however , would be a sharp break with ...
... give the Congress and State legislatures the power to determine the constitutionality of their own acts , with , perhaps , a popular referendum when desired by a sufficient number of people . This , however , would be a sharp break with ...
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Durant Drake. to give a narrowly legalistic interpretation , one that concerns itself more with property rights than with human rights , yet the idea behind this Constitu- tional barrier is a sound one . It comes down to a question of ...
Durant Drake. to give a narrowly legalistic interpretation , one that concerns itself more with property rights than with human rights , yet the idea behind this Constitu- tional barrier is a sound one . It comes down to a question of ...
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Page 299 - The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make. We are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind. We shall be satisfied when those rights have been made as secure as the faith and the freedom of nations can make them.
Page 28 - All too will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable ; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate which would be oppression.
Page 299 - Our motive will not be revenge or the victorious assertion of the physical might of the nation, but only the vindication of right, of human right, of which we are only a single champion.
Page 57 - But when men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe even more than they believe the very foundations of their own conduct that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas— that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out.
Page 300 - To such a task we can dedicate our lives and our fortunes, everything that we are and everything that we have, with the pride of those who know that the day has come when America is privileged to spend her blood and her might for the principles that gave her birth and happiness and the peace which she has treasured. God helping her, she can do no other.
Page 94 - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Page 302 - I am proposing, as it were, that the nations should with one accord adopt the doctrine of President Monroe as the doctrine of the world ; that no nation should seek to extend its polity over any other nation or people, but that every people should be left free to determine its own polity, its own way of development, unhindered, unthreatened, unafraid, the little along with the great and powerful.
Page 67 - Let every American, every lover of liberty, every wellwisher to his posterity swear by the blood of the Revolution never to violate in the least particular the laws of the country, and never to tolerate their violation by others.
Page 299 - The object of this war is to deliver the free peoples of the world from the menace and the actual power of a vast military establishment controlled by an irresponsible government which, having secretly planned to dominate the world, proceeded to carry the plan out without regard either to the sacred obligations of treaty or the long-established practices and long-cherished principles of international action and...
Page 292 - We are at the beginning of an age in which it will be insisted that the same standards of conduct and of responsibility for wrong done shall be observed among nations and their governments that are observed among the individual citizens of civilized states.