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" We can have no sympathy with those who seek to seize the power of government to advance their own personal interests or ambition. "
The American Year Book - Page 117
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National Progress, 1907-1917, Volume 39

Frederic Austin Ogg - History - 1918 - 478 pages
...of Mexico seemed dependent on his overthrow. "We can have no sympathy," urged Wilson upon Congress, "with those who seek to seize the power of government...their own personal interests or ambition. . . . We dare not turn from the principle that morality and not expediency is the thing that is to guide us."...
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The American Nation, a History: National progress, 1907-1917

Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1918 - 462 pages
...of Mexico seemed dependent on his overthrow. "We can have no sympathy," urged Wilson upon Congress, "with those who seek to seize the power of government...their own personal interests or ambition. . . . We dare not turn from the principle that morality and not expediency is the thing that is to guide us."...
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Carranza and His Bolshevik Regime

Jorge Vera EstaƱol - Mexico - 1920 - 272 pages
...(speech of President Wilson delivered at the Waldorf Hotel, New York, on the 26th of January, 1915) "can have no sympathy with those who seek to seize the power of the government to advance their own personal interests or ambitions." (Circular telegram above cited)....
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Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him

Joseph Patrick Tumulty - 1921 - 584 pages
...scorn the high idealism which lay behind it." To him the declaration of the American President that "we can have no sympathy with those who seek to seize...advance their own personal interests or ambition" was a mere gesture, too puerile to be seriously considered. While Huerta in Mexico was blatantly denouncing...
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woodrow wilson as i know him

joseph p. tumulty - 1921 - 608 pages
...scorn the high idealism which lay behind it." To him the declaration of the American President that "we can have no sympathy with those who seek to seize...advance their own personal interests or ambition" was a mere gesture, too puerile to be seriously considered. While Huerta in Mexico was blatantly denouncing...
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The United States of America, Volume 2

David Saville Muzzey - United States - 1924 - 884 pages
...people who are unfortunate enough to have their common life and their common affairs so disturbed. We can have no sympathy with those who seek to seize the power of government to advance their own political interest or ambition." This was a noble doctrine. Its attribution of the capacity and general...
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American Economic Interests in Mexico and Their Influence on American Policy ...

Herbert Henry Helble - 1924 - 274 pages
...utterance, made by President Wilson sometime previously, now became clear: "We can have no sympathy for those who seek to seize the power of government to advance their own personal interests or ambition ... as friends, we shall prefer those who act in the interests of peace and honor, who protect private...
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Dollar Diplomacy;: A Study in American Imperialism,

Scott Nearing, Joseph Freeman - Imperialism - 1925 - 400 pages
...of Madero in February 1913. On March n, seven days after taking office, President Wilson declared: "We can have no sympathy with those who seek to seize...advance their own personal interests or ambition. We are friends of peace, but we know that there can be no lasting or stable peace in such circumstances."...
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Dollar Diplomacy;: A Study in American Imperialism,

Scott Nearing, Joseph Freeman - Imperialism - 1925 - 408 pages
...of Madero in February 1913. On March u, seven days after taking office, President Wilson declared: "We can have no sympathy with those who seek to seize...advance their own personal interests or ambition. We are friends of peace, but we know that there can be no lasting or stable peace in such circumstances."...
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The Growth of the United States

Ralph Volney Harlow - United States - 1925 - 910 pages
...refusal to hold a genuine election, and to his obvious inability to control all parts of the country. "We can have no sympathy with those who seek to seize...advance their own personal interests or ambition. We dare not turn from the principle that morality and not expediency is the thing that is to guide us,"...
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