Imperialism and LibertyRonbroke Press, 1899 - 491 páginas |
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... wealth into a central hoard and debauch the population to a servile dependence equal to slavery . The religious gentlemen who should speak of these outrages would lose their nice comfort . For com- fort's sake they hold their peace ...
... wealth into a central hoard and debauch the population to a servile dependence equal to slavery . The religious gentlemen who should speak of these outrages would lose their nice comfort . For com- fort's sake they hold their peace ...
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... Wealth does not always give power , as he truly says . But he asks us to believe that we hold Egypt , and even India , ' not from avarice , but from love of governing . ' ' Our own colonies , ' he adds , ' are not bound to us by a nexus ...
... Wealth does not always give power , as he truly says . But he asks us to believe that we hold Egypt , and even India , ' not from avarice , but from love of governing . ' ' Our own colonies , ' he adds , ' are not bound to us by a nexus ...
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... wealth and commerce , and of civ- ilized populations following the establishment of some of the colonies of Europe , had encouraged the belief that all adventures to which the same name could be given must be crowned with the same ...
... wealth and commerce , and of civ- ilized populations following the establishment of some of the colonies of Europe , had encouraged the belief that all adventures to which the same name could be given must be crowned with the same ...
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... wealth and a sea power which qualified her to outstrip and defeat other nations in appropriating the world's territory ; but now the other powers have caught up and expansion meets expansion and is blocked . There is a feeling among the ...
... wealth and a sea power which qualified her to outstrip and defeat other nations in appropriating the world's territory ; but now the other powers have caught up and expansion meets expansion and is blocked . There is a feeling among the ...
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... wealth , owned and governed by a few citizens who are growing less American and more upper - class English daily . We need not be a serious competitor with England for territory anywhere in the world . If our cupidity can be baited by a ...
... wealth , owned and governed by a few citizens who are growing less American and more upper - class English daily . We need not be a serious competitor with England for territory anywhere in the world . If our cupidity can be baited by a ...
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Página 121 - That the United States hereby disclaims any disposition or intention to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction, or control over said island except for the pacification thereof, and asserts its determination when that is accomplished to leave the government and control of the island to its people.
Página 458 - ... that thou mayest love the Lord thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him : for he is thy life, and the length of thy days : that thou mayest dwell in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
Página 175 - ... of the people is so sprightly up, as that it has not only wherewith to guard well its own freedom and safety, but to spare...
Página 51 - Finally, it should be the earnest and paramount aim of the military administration to win the confidence, respect and affection of the inhabitants of the Philippines by assuring them in every possible way that full measure of individual rights and liberties which is the heritage of free peoples, and by proving to them that the mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation, substituting the mild sway of justice and right for arbitrary rule.
Página 174 - For this is not the liberty which we can hope, that no grievance ever should arise in the commonwealth, that let no man in this world expect ; but when complaints are freely heard, deeply considered, and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty obtained that wise men look for.
Página 175 - Last, that it will be primely to the discouragement of all learning, and the stop of truth, not only by disexercising and blunting our abilities, in what we know already, but by hindering and cropping the discovery that might be yet further made, both in religious and civil wisdom.
Página 100 - 11 keep the people in blindness,— Thet we the Mexicuns can thrash Eight inter brotherly kindness, Thet bombshells, grape, an' powder 'n' ball Air good-will's strongest magnets, Thet peace, to make it stick at all, Must be druv in with bagnets. In short, I firmly du believe In Humbug generally, Fer it's a thing thet I perceive To hev a solid vally; This heth my faithful shepherd ben, In pasturs sweet heth led me, An' this '11 keep the people green To feed ez they hev fed me.
Página 456 - But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him: for the LORD thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into thy hand, as appeareth this day.
Página 473 - My system is built upon this idea as a ruling one, namely, that we must Change the question before the public from one upon slavery, or. about slavery, for a question upon union or disunion. In other words, from what would be regarded as a party question to one of Patriotism or Union. The occupation or evacuation of Fort Sumter, although not in fact a slavery or a party question, is so regarded.
Página 172 - It cannot be denied, but that he who is made judge to sit upon the birth or death of books, whether they may be wafted into this world or not, had need to be a man above the common measure, both studious, learned, and judicious...