 The example of America must be the example not merely of peace because it will not fight, but of peace because peace is the healing and elevating influence of the world and strife is not. There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight. There...  President Wilson's Addresses - Page 146by United States. President (1913-1921 : Wilson) - 1918 - 311 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Daniel Halévy - Presidents - 1919 - 288 pages
...influence of the world, and strife is not. There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight; there is such a thing as a nation being so right that it...need to convince others by force that it is right." There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight. . . . For no words has he been more often... | |
 | Charles Alphonso Smith - English language - 1919 - 232 pages
...influence of the world and strife is not. There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it...need to convince others by force that it is right. — PRESIDENT WILSON, New York, April 20, 1915. Throughout 1916 and the campaign for reelection, in... | |
 | William Archer - United States - 1919 - 152 pages
...influence of the world, and strife is not. There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight; there is such a thing as a nation being so right that it...need to convince others by force that it is right. The expression was casual -and illustrative, a mere obiter dictum; but at such a juncture even obiter... | |
 | William Herbert Hobbs - Europe - 1919 - 474 pages
...influence of the world and strife is not. There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it...need to convince others by force that it is right." (4, p. 260.) It would undoubtedly be incorrect to say that by the vast majority of American citizens... | |
 | Mary Rosetta Parkman - World War, 1914-1918 - 1919 - 360 pages
...influence of the world and strife is not. There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it...need to convince others by force that it is right." Nothing could illustrate more completely the aloofness of the President from the natural feeling of... | |
 | William Draper Lewis - Biography & Autobiography - 1919 - 556 pages
...ears they read the President's words: "There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it...need to convince others by force that it is right." It is not hard to imagine what Roosevelt's feelings must have been when he read this speech, and how... | |
 | United States - 1919 - 716 pages
...strife is not." It was followed by another of equal importance, that a nation may be so much in the right "that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right." These two phrases expressed what was in the President's mind clearly and definitely: the United States... | |
 | Woodrow Wilson - Presidents - 1919 - 266 pages
...influence of the world, and strife is not. There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not Oath of allegianc need to convince others by force that it is right. Address to Newly Naturalized Citizens.... | |
 | Winthrop Talbot, Julia Emily Johnsen - Americanization - 1920 - 452 pages
...influence of the world and strife is not. There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it...to give, and all that we have to give is this : We can not exempt you from work ; no man is exempt from work anywhere in the world. We can not exempt... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - World War, 1914-1918 - 1920 - 454 pages
...influence of the world, and strife is not. There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it...need to convince others by force that it is right." 372 a i I cr •= •S O =. CS (W y . 3- Srt •» ax cr. ^ § I 8" r GENERAL PERSHING'S FINAL REPORT... | |
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