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... ideas of the men who founded it . " Certainly business prosperity and victory on the field of battle are no guaranty of any nation's future ; the cardinal requisite is that its heart be sound , its moral fibre on a par with its material ...
... ideas of the men who founded it . " Certainly business prosperity and victory on the field of battle are no guaranty of any nation's future ; the cardinal requisite is that its heart be sound , its moral fibre on a par with its material ...
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... idea behind this Constitu- tional barrier is a sound one . It comes down to a question of political policy . Do we need checks upon over - hasty legislative action ? Or do we need rather to progress more freely than our constitutional ...
... idea behind this Constitu- tional barrier is a sound one . It comes down to a question of political policy . Do we need checks upon over - hasty legislative action ? Or do we need rather to progress more freely than our constitutional ...
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... in their work , and deprives the industries of the ideas that would be evolved from their participation in their manage- ment . Emerson boasted of our people that we are " a nation of individuals . " But we are INDIVIDUALISM 41.
... in their work , and deprives the industries of the ideas that would be evolved from their participation in their manage- ment . Emerson boasted of our people that we are " a nation of individuals . " But we are INDIVIDUALISM 41.
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... ideas of value to the business . As Professor Mecklin says , " among the thousands of human beings working like bees ... idea here is that almost anybody can fill any position ; we do not demand professional training for high political ...
... ideas of value to the business . As Professor Mecklin says , " among the thousands of human beings working like bees ... idea here is that almost anybody can fill any position ; we do not demand professional training for high political ...
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... ideas to contribute . But the develop- ment of our highly complex political and industrial machines has throttled the individuality of all but the fortunate or clever few who can push their way V into the inner councils . Many proposals ...
... ideas to contribute . But the develop- ment of our highly complex political and industrial machines has throttled the individuality of all but the fortunate or clever few who can push their way V into the inner councils . Many proposals ...
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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.