 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.  Essays for College English - Page 447edited by - 1918 - 474 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, Kathleen Hall Jamieson - History - 1990 - 285 pages
...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...human right, of which we are only a single champion. 14 On March 28, 1898, McKinley commented on the sinking of the Maine in Havana harbor: The appalling... | |
 | Daniel Patrick Moynihan - International law - 1990 - 228 pages
...character and our motives as a nation. We must put excited feeling away. Our motive will not be revenge or the victorious assertion of the physical might 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 rights of neutrals, but Madison... | |
 | George W. Norris - Biography & Autobiography - 1992 - 470 pages
...Congress itself seemed to sense that the hour of decision had arrived. In that message Mr. Wilson said: "When I addressed the Congress on the 26th of February last, I thought it would suffice to assert our neutral right with arms, our right to use the seas against unlawful... | |
 | Torbjorn L. Knutsen, Torbjørn L. Knutsen - History - 1997 - 370 pages
...name of the rights of all mankind. Wilson, then, declared war on Germany, motivated not by 'revenge or the victorious assertion of the physical might of...human right, of which we are only a single champion' (DM Smith 1966, p. 191). America should fight for 'the ultimate peace of the world and for the liberation... | |
 | Robert G. Torricelli, Andrew Caroll - History - 1999 - 488 pages
...character and our motives as a nation. We must put excited feeling away. Our motive will not be revenge or the victorious assertion of the physical might of...human right, of which we are only a single champion. . . . Armed neutrality is ineffectual enough at best. In such circumstances and in the face of such... | |
 | Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, Stephen J. McKenna - History - 1999 - 978 pages
...Our motive will not he revenge or the victorious assertion of the pbysical might of the nation, hut only the vindication of right, of human right, of...single champion. When I addressed the Congress on the twenty-sixth of Fehruary last 1 thought that it would suffice to assert our neutral rights with arms,... | |
 | Jim F. Watts, Fred L. Israel - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 416 pages
...character and our motives as a nation. We must put excited feeling away. Our motive will not be revenge or the victorious assertion of the physical might of...right, of which we are only a single champion. When 1 addressed the Congress on the twenty-sixth of February last I thought that it would suffice to assert... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - Reference - 2000 - 662 pages
...character and our motives as a nation. We must put excited feeling away. Our motive will not be revenge or the victorious assertion of the physical might of...human right, of which we are only a single champion. . . . With a profound sense of the solemn and even tragical character of the step I am taking and of... | |
 | Joy Hakim - America - 2003 - 356 pages
...character and our motives as a nation. We must put excited feeling away. Our motive will not be revenge or the victorious assertion of the physical might of...human right, of which we are only a single champion. . . . With a profound sense of the solemn and even tragical character of the step I am taking and of... | |
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