 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.  America Faces the Future - Page 299by Durant Drake - 1922 - 339 pagesFull view - About this book
 | United States. President (1913-1921 : Wilson) - United States - 1918 - 528 pages
...discrimination. The challenge is to all mankind. Each nation must decide for itself how it will meet it. The choice we make for ourselves must be made with a moderation of counsel and a temperatcness of judgment befitting our character and our motives as a nation. We must put excited... | |
 | John Gilbert Thompson, Inez Bigwood - Readers - 1918 - 368 pages
...careful thought. We must put excited feeling away. Our motives will not be revenge or the victorious show of the physical might of the nation, but only the vindication of right, of human rights, of which we are only a single champion. . . . The German Government denies the right of neutrals... | |
 | American Association for International Conciliation - Aliens - 1917 - 376 pages
...discrimination. The challenge is to all mankind. Each nation must decide for itself how it will meet it. The choice we make for ourselves must be made with...but only the vindication of right, of human right, of which we are only a single champion. When I addressed the Congress on the twenty-sixth of February... | |
 | Daniel Patrick Moynihan - International law - 1990 - 228 pages
...discrimination. The challenge is to all mankind. Each nation must decide for itself how it will meet it. The choice we make for ourselves must be made with...but only the vindication of right, of human right, of which we are only a single champion.2 A century earlier the United States had gone to war over the... | |
 | Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, Kathleen Hall Jamieson - History - 1990 - 285 pages
...temperateness of judgment befitting our character and our motives as a nation. We must put excited feelings away. Our motive will not be revenge or the victorious...but only the vindication of right, of human right, of which we are only a single champion.14 On March 28, 1898, McKinley commented on the sinking of the... | |
 | Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, Kathleen Hall Jamieson - History - 1990 - 285 pages
...not emotional, grounds: The choice we make for ourselves must be made with a moderation of council and a temperateness of judgment befitting our character and our motives as a nation. We must put excited feelings away. Our motive will not be revenge or the victorious assertion of the physical might of... | |
 | Torbjorn L. Knutsen, Torbjørn L. Knutsen - History - 1997 - 370 pages
...Germany in the name of the rights of all mankind. Wilson, then, declared war on Germany, motivated not by 'revenge or the victorious assertion of the physical...but only the vindication of right, of human right, of which we are only a single champion' (DM Smith 1966, p. 191). America should fight for 'the ultimate... | |
 | Robert G. Torricelli, Andrew Caroll - History - 1999 - 488 pages
...discrimination. The challenge is to all mankind. Each nation must decide for itself how it will meet it. The choice we make for ourselves must be made with...but only the vindication of right, of human right, of which we are only a single champion. . . . Armed neutrality is ineffectual enough at best. In such... | |
 | Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, Stephen J. McKenna - History - 1999 - 978 pages
...make for ourselves must he made with a moderation of counsel and a temperateness of judgment hefitting our character and our motives as a nation. We must put excited feeling away. Our motive will not he revenge or the victorious assertion of the pbysical might of the nation, hut only the vindication... | |
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