| Gerald Stanley Lee - 1918 - 394 páginas
...peoples who live upon it and have made it their own, the German people themselves included. . . . "We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest,...no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves and no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make. . . . We fight for the things... | |
| United States. Committee on Public Information - 1918 - 388 páginas
...tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquests, no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves,...compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make. W7e are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind. We shall be satisfied when those rights... | |
| Willis Mason West - 1918 - 846 páginas
..." The world must be made safe for democracy. . . . We have no selfish ends. We desire no conquests, no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves,...compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make. "It is a fearful thing to lead this great, peaceful country into war, into the most terrible and disastrous... | |
| Richard Grelling - 1918 - 514 páginas
...no conquests and no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves and no material compensation for sacrifices we shall freely make. We are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind, and shall be satisfied when those rights are as secure as fact and the freedom of nations can make... | |
| James Titus - 1984 - 312 páginas
...to the confusion when in his war address he maintained that "We have no selfish ends to serve. ... We are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind. We seek nothing for ourselves . . .," but then declined to ask for a declaration of war against Germany's... | |
| Robert Moats Miller - 1985 - 637 páginas
...thirty-two months of attempted neutrality, President Wilson appealed to Congress to declare war: "We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest,...We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensations for the sacrifices we shall freely make. We are but one of the champions of the rights... | |
| 1917 - 592 páginas
...the world, as against selfish or autocratic power." We gave this assurance to our sister nations, "We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion." "We are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind. We shall be satisfied when those rights have... | |
| William D. Miller - 1991 - 258 páginas
...made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty We are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind....those rights have been made as secure as the faith and freedom of nations can make them. . . . [These rights are] more precious than peace, and we shall fight... | |
| Richard Crockatt - 1995 - 454 páginas
...democracy,' Wilson announced in his message to Congress requesting a declaration of war on Germany. 'We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest,...but one of the champions of the rights of mankind' (Wilson 1983, Vol. 41: 525). The question of precisely why the United States entered the war is much... | |
| Torbjorn L. Knutsen, Torbjørn L. Knutsen - 1997 - 370 páginas
...life'. The United States sought no selfish ends, Wilson insisted. 'We desire no conquest, no domination. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material...compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make.' America's war aim was only to defeat 'autocratic governments backed by organized force which is controlled... | |
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