 The example of America must be a special example. The example of America must be the example not merely of peace because it will not fight, but of peace because peace is the healing and elevating influence of the world and strife is not. There is such...  The Foreign Policy of Woodrow Wilson, 1913-1917 - Página 66por Edgar Eugene Robinson, Victor J. West - 1917 - 426 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Thomas H. Buckley, Edwin B. Strong - 1987 - 228 páginas
...displayed outrage, but few wanted war, and most agreed with Wilson, somewhat lost in his own words, when he said, "There is such a thing as a nation being...that it does not need to convince others by force." Wilson insisted that Americans had a perfect right under international law to travel on any ships;... | |
 | John Milton Cooper - 1990 - 438 páginas
...sinking of the Lusitania, Wilson declared, "There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so right that...need to convince others by force that it is right." The "too proud to fight" speech instantly drew passionate reactions for and against; quickly grasping... | |
 | Daniel Patrick Moynihan - 1990 - 228 páginas
...warhawks with the celebrated pronouncement, "There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so right that...does not need to convince others by force that it is right."30 And there is, alas, such a thing as a president's being too proud to struggle for the privilege... | |
 | J. W. Schulte Nordholt - 1991 - 532 páginas
...influence of the world, and strife is not. There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so right that...need to convince others by force that it is right." Too proud to fight! Just what did that mean? Could it not be interpreted as cowardice pretending to... | |
 | Richard B. Miller - 1991 - 306 páginas
...shown great usefulness. Promising to keep the United States out of the Great War, Wilson said in 1916, "There is such a thing as a nation being so right...does not need to convince others by force that it is right."107 Wilson suggested not only that the United States was in accord with the highest principles... | |
 | James David Barber - 2011 - 355 páginas
...many Americans aboard, Wilson declared, "There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight" and "There is such a thing as a nation being so right...need to convince others by force that it is right." That September, speaking on "The Faith America Lives By," he said, "The law that will work is merely... | |
 | Roland Cosandey, André Gaudreault, Tom Gunning - 1992 - 418 páginas
...influence of the world, and strife is not. There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so right that...does not need to convince others by force that it is right6. By claiming the moral high ground, Wilson was aligning himself, if only tenuously, with the... | |
 | William E. Leuchtenburg - 2010 - 333 páginas
...to fight," the President said, to the disgust of Theodore Roosevelt and the bellicose nationalists. "There is such a thing as a nation being so right...need to convince others by force that it is right." Nonetheless, Wilson sent three vigorous notes. In June, Germany, fearing war with the United States,... | |
 | 1997 - 338 páginas
...influence of the world and strife is not. There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so right that...does not need to convince others by force that it is right.24 Into preparations for war, Wilson carried the nation on the breath of the same intensity,... | |
 | Walter A. McDougall - 1997 - 316 páginas
...notes to Berlin. "There is such a thing," he instructed the nation, "as a man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so right that...does not need to convince others by force that it is right."9' Theodore Roosevelt, who wanted war, damned the president for a "Byzantine logothete" supported... | |
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