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... thought of American freedom . First among the various embodiments of this ideal we may speak of that political liberty that was as- serted in the historical Declaration of Independence- " these colonies are , and of right ought to be ...
... thought of American freedom . First among the various embodiments of this ideal we may speak of that political liberty that was as- serted in the historical Declaration of Independence- " these colonies are , and of right ought to be ...
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... thought of American statesmen . Emerson expressed this ideal and this fear in his well - known lines , " For what avail the plough or sail Or land or life , if freedom fail ? ” The glaring inconsistency in a people that sing of their ...
... thought of American statesmen . Emerson expressed this ideal and this fear in his well - known lines , " For what avail the plough or sail Or land or life , if freedom fail ? ” The glaring inconsistency in a people that sing of their ...
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... thought they profited , thereby . But the clash between ideal and practice was inevitable ; personal liberty could not forever be worshipped as the highest good and at the same time denied to a large section of the population . One by ...
... thought they profited , thereby . But the clash between ideal and practice was inevitable ; personal liberty could not forever be worshipped as the highest good and at the same time denied to a large section of the population . One by ...
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... 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 would be an unwise thing for municipalities to go into 34 LIBERTY.
... 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 would be an unwise thing for municipalities to go into 34 LIBERTY.
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... thought , to the extension of munic- ipal activity , led them to block legislation which a majority of Mr. Holmes ' type would have passed as legitimate . It can clearly be seen that the political and social temper of our judges may ...
... thought , to the extension of munic- ipal activity , led them to block legislation which a majority of Mr. Holmes ' type would have passed as legitimate . It can clearly be seen that the political and social temper of our judges may ...
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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.