 For my own part, I cannot consent to any abridgment of the rights of American citizens in any respect. The honor and self-respect of the nation is involved. We covet peace and shall preserve it at any cost but the loss of honor. To forbid our people to...  The Quarterly Review - Page 2111916Full view - About this book
 | 1916 - 880 pages
...exercise their undoubted rights, lest those rights should be violated and the Government should have to vindicate them, would be "a deep humiliation indeed." It would be more than a humiliation; it would be a wrong, for "it would be an implicit, and all but an explicit,... | |
 | Thomas Williams Bicknell, Albert Edward Winship, Anson Wood Belding - 1916 - 1014 pages
...citizens should be abridged or denied by such action, we should have in honor no choice as to our course. To forbid our people to exercise their rights for fear we might be called upon to vindii-ate them would be, the President said, a deep humiliation. "We covet • ." he said, "and shall... | |
 | 1917 - 688 pages
...of the nation is involved. We covet peace, and shall preserve it at any cost but the loss of honor. To forbid our people to exercise their rights for...vindicate them would be a deep humiliation indeed. Tt would be an implicit, all hut an explicit, acquiescence in the violation of the rights of mankind... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1916 - 166 pages
...Nation is involved. We covet peace and shall preserve it at any cost but the loss of honor. To forbid_ our people to exercise their rights for fear we might...deliberate abdication of our hitherto proud position as spokesman, even amid the turmoil of war, for the law and the right. It would make everything this Government... | |
 | eugene c. brooks - 1916 - 756 pages
...assertion that the rights of American citizens should not be abridged in any respect, and he explained: "To forbid our people to exercise their rights for...humiliation indeed. It would be an implicit, all but explicit, acquiescence in the violation of the rights of mankind everywhere, and of whatever nation... | |
 | Eugene Clyde Brooks - 1916 - 586 pages
...assertion that the rights of American citizens should not be abridged in any respect, and he explained: "To forbid our people to exercise their rights for...humiliation indeed. It would be an implicit, all but explicit, acquiescence in the violation of the rights of mankind everywhere, and of whatever nation... | |
 | 1916 - 1296 pages
...of the nation are involved. We covet peace, and shall preserve it at any cost but the loss of honor. To forbid our people to exercise their rights for...might be called upon to vindicate them would be a deep humilation indeed. It would be an implicit, all but an explicit, acquiescence in the violation of the... | |
 | Augustus White Long - 1917 - 458 pages
...of the nation is involved. We covet peace and shall preserve it at any cost but the loss of honor. To forbid our people to exercise their rights for...deliberate abdication of our hitherto proud position as spokesman, even amidst the turmoil of war, for the law and the right. It would make everything this... | |
 | 1918 - 916 pages
...of the Nation are involved. We covet peace, and shall preserve it at any cost but the loss of honor. To forbid our people to exercise their rights for...indeed. It would be an implicit, all but an explicit, acquiesence in the violation of the rights of mankind everywhere, and of whatever nation or allegiance.... | |
 | 1917 - 680 pages
...Americans based on principles established by all nations to lessen the horror and sufferings of war. It would be " an implicit, all but an explicit, acquiescence...violation of the rights of mankind everywhere." and an " abdication of our hitherto proud position as spokesmen, even amid the turmoil of war, for the... | |
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