By prescribed law, by authorized publicity, by informed public opinion, let her continue to strive to provide that all conditions under which her citizens live are worthy of the highest state of man.
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By prescribed law, by authorized publicity, by informed public opinion, let her continue to strive to provide that all conditions under which her citizens live are worthy of the highest state of man.
By prescribed law, by authorized publicity, by informed public opinion, let her continue to strive to provide that all conditions under which her citizens live are worthy of the highest state of man.
After more than five years of the bitterest war in human experience, the last great stronghold of force, surrendering to the demands of America and her allies, agreed to cast aside the sword. And
Five, four, and ten years ago, that divine providence, which infinite repetition has made, made only the more a miracle, sent into the world a new life, destined to save a nation.
Invoking the spirit of our forefathers, the army asks your unflinching support to the end that the high ideals for which America stands may endure upon the earth.
...shall be able so to lead his own life and so to support his wife and his children that these children shall grow up into men and women fit for the exacting duties of American citizenship.
What was really interesting in their testimony, however, was the sidelighted cast on their own motives and standards of propriety, and incidentally, an unwitting tribute to the attitude of my administration.
Our aim is to control business, not to strangle, and above all not to continue the policy of make-believe strangle toward big concerns that do evil, and constant menace toward both big and little concerns that do well.
More, we are committed to sacrifice and battle in order to make America safe for Americans and establish their security on every lawful mission on the high seas or under the shadows of the world.
It's good to believe that maybe destiny held this new world republic to be the supreme example of representative democracy and order to liberty by which humanity is inspired to hire a champion.
It's folly to think of blending Greek and Bulgarian, are, Italian and Slovak, or making any of them rejoicingly American when the land of adoption sits in judgment on the land from which he came.
My countrymen, we believe the unspeakable sorrows, the immeasurable sacrifices, the awakened convictions, and the aspiring conscience of humankind must commit the nations of the earth to a new and better relationship.
Greater assurance is found in the exchanges of simple honesty and directness among men resolved to accomplish as becomes leaders among nations when civilization itself has come to its crucial test.
No one may measure the vast and buried abyss, the perfections and sorrows centering on this priceless cargo of bodies, once living, fighting for and finally dying for the republic.
I wanted him to take the girls we had in the folly and let them wear the same costumes they wore in the show and march them down between the trenches, believe me, the boys that have been out before Christmas.
You are without a doubt the most disgustingly rich audience I ever talked to, with the possible exception of the bootleggers'union, local number one, combined with the enforcement officers.
Ladies and gentlemen, now I have spoken in all kinds of joints, from the homes of the rich on Fifth Avenue to telling jokes in Sing Sing, but this is my first crack at a political speech, and I hope it flops.
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