 It is a distressing and oppressive duty, gentlemen of the Congress, which I have performed in thus addressing you. There are, it may be, many months of fiery trial and sacrifice ahead of us. It is a fearful thing to lead this great, peaceful people into...  Proceedings ... - Página 99por New York State Bar Association - 1918Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | John Davison Lawson - 1921 - 968 páginas
...opportunity to prove that friendIt is a distressing and oppressive duty, gentlemen of the Con-' gress, which I have performed in thus addressing you. There...civilization itself seeming to be in the balance. ship in our daily attitude and actions toward the millions of men and women of German birth and native... | |
 | Leon Carroll Marshall, Leverett Samuel Lyon - 1921 - 524 páginas
...those rights have been made as secure as the faith and the freedom of the nation can make them. . . . "It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful...balance. But the right is more precious than peace, atid we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts — for democracy,... | |
 | 1921 - 826 páginas
...¡ierformed in tbus addressing yon, There are it may he many montbs of fiery' trial and sacrifice abead of us. It is a fearful thing to lead this great, peaceful people into war — into the most terrible und disastrous of all wars — civilization itself seeming to he in the halance. "But the right is... | |
 | George Waldo Browne, Rosecrans W. Pillsbury - 1921 - 368 páginas
...been made as secure as the faith and the freedom of the nations can make them. • • • • • it is a distressing and oppressive duty, gentlemen of the Congress, which I have performed in addressing you. There are, It may be, many months of flery trial and sacrifice ahead of us. It is a... | |
 | Henry Gaines Hawn - 1921 - 186 páginas
...and the freedom of nations can make them.^ — There are, — it may be, — 7many months of fiery sacrifice ahead of us/ — It is a .fearful thing to lead this great and peaceful people into war.^ — 4But the right/ is more precious than peace ^ • — and we shall... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Selected Committee on Haiti and Santo Domingo - 1922 - 828 páginas
...loyal to their neighbors and to the Government in the hour of test. " It is u distressing thing arid an oppressive duty, gentlemen of the Congress, which...itself seeming to be in the balance. " But the right ts more precious than peace, and we shall light for the things which we have always carried nearest... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Haiti and Santo Domingo - 1922 - 1928 páginas
...gentlemen of the Congress, which I have i>erformed in thus addressing you. There are it may be many mouths of fiery trial and sacrifice ahead of us. It is a fearful thing to lead tins great, peaceful people into war — Into the most terrible :ind disastrous of all wars— civilization... | |
 | Harry Grant Plum, Gilbert Giddings Benjamin, Bessie Louise Pierce - 1923 - 484 páginas
...it will lift it only here and there without countenance except from a lawless and malignant few. " It is a distressing and oppressive duty, Gentlemen...civilization itself seeming to be in the balance. But right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest... | |
 | John Louis Haney - 1923 - 484 páginas
...among the individual citizens of civilized states. The message concludes with these memorable words: It is a distressing and oppressive duty, Gentlemen...all wars, civilization itself seeming to be in the bdance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have... | |
 | Florence Jaffray Harriman - 1923 - 430 páginas
...his face set. His emotion crept into his tone only at the end, when he concluded his address with : It is a distressing and oppressive duty, Gentlemen of the Congress, which I have to perform in thus addressing you. There are, it may be, many months of fiery trial and sacrifice ahead... | |
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