 | American Association for International Conciliation - 1917 - 376 pagine
...Congress on the third of February and on the twenty-sixth of February. Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in...peoples of the world such a concert of purpose and of action as will henceforth ensure the observance of those principles. Neutrality is no longer feasible... | |
 | Great Britain. Foreign Office, Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office - 1921 - 1178 pagine
...I addressed the Congress on the 3rd February and on the 26th February. Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in...against selfish and autocratic power and to set up amongst the really free and self-governed peoples of the world such a concert of purpose and of action... | |
 | Merle Eugene Curti - 970 pagine
...in 1917. This position was expounded in memorable words in Wilson's war message: Our object ... is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in...the world as against selfish and autocratic power. The right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried nearest... | |
 | Brewster C. Denny - 1985 - 218 pagine
...America's first foreign war, he announced America's central objective in that war: To set up amongst the really free and self-governed peoples of the world such a concert of purpose and of action as will henceforth insure the observance of those principles. Neutrality is no longer feasible... | |
 | Mary C. Rabbitt, Clifford M. Nelson - 1986 - 508 pagine
...on the same day. In his eloquent war message President Wilson declared that the American objective was "to vindicate the principles of peace and justice...against selfish and autocratic power and to set up amongst the really free and self-governed peoples of the world such a concert of purpose and action... | |
 | D. W. Meinig - 2010 - 483 pagine
...provided Wilson with the rationale that war "has been thrust upon us" and America responds in order "to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world." Thus in April 1917 the United States joined the battle as an "associated" not "allied" power, a distinction... | |
 | 1917 - 592 pagine
...When the Nation entered the war, one year ago, its object, as stated in the message of the President, was "to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world, as against selfish or autocratic power." We gave this assurance to our sister nations, "We have no selfish ends to serve.... | |
 | Daniel Patrick Moynihan - 1990 - 228 pagine
...involved. The law of nations, yes.3 This was new. Nor did he stop there. Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in...against selfish and autocratic power and to set up amongst the really free and self-governed peoples of the world such a concert of purpose and of action... | |
 | Kalevi Jaakko Holsti - 1991 - 404 pagine
...relationships. Any strategy of peace must first smash both types of old systems: Our object now ... is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in...world as against selfish and autocratic power and set up amongst the really free and self-governed peoples of the world such a concert of purpose and... | |
 | William D. Miller - 1991 - 258 pagine
...remainder of the address was a statement of the ends for which America would fight: "Our object ... is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against autocratic power." America was not fighting the German people, it was fighting a system. The system... | |
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Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic power and to set up amongst the really free and selfgoverned peoples of the world such a concert of purpose and of... 
