 We consented to the treaty; its language we accepted, if we did not originate it; and we are too big, too powerful, too self-respecting a nation to interpret with too strained or refined a reading the words of our own promises just because we have power...  The Living Age - Page 841918Full view - About this book
 | Humanities - 1926 - 536 pages
...continued — "We consented to the treaty; its language we accepted, if we did not originate it; and we are too big, too powerful, too self-respecting a nation to interpret with a too strained or refined reading the words of our own promises just because we have power enough to... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1914 - 1078 pages
...asking you to repeal. We consented to the treaty; its language we accepted, if we did not originate; and we are too big, too powerful, too self-respecting...enough to give us leave to read them as we please. The large thing to do is the only thing that we can afford to do, a voluntary withdrawal from a position... | |
 | Frederic Logan Paxson - United States - 1911 - 648 pages
...too powerful, too self-respecting a nation," he urged, "to interpret with a too strained or refined reading the words of our own promises just because...enough to give us leave to read them as we please. ... I ask this of you in support of the foreign policy of the Administration. I shall not know how... | |
 | Leander Trowbridge Chamberlain - Colombia - 1912 - 768 pages
...you to repeal. We consented to the treaty; its language we accepted, if we did not originate it; and we are too big, too powerful, too selfrespecting a nation to interpret with a too strained or refined reading the words of our own promises just because we have power enough to... | |
 | 1914 - 1148 pages
...to repeal. We consented to the Treaty ; its language we accepted, if we did not originate it; anil we are too big, too powerful, too selfrespecting a...enough to give us leave to read them as we please. The large thing to do is the only thing we can afford to do — a voluntary withdrawal from a position... | |
 | Lewis Nixon - Hay-Pauncefote Treaty - 1914 - 264 pages
...you to repeal. We consented to the treaty; its language we accepted, if we did not originate it; and we are too big, too powerful, too self-respecting...the words of our own promises just because we have the power enough to give us leave to read them as we please. The large thing to do is the only thing... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1914 - 996 pages
...asking you to repeal. We consented to the treaty; its language we accepted, if we did not originate; and we are too big, too powerful, too self-respecting...with too strained or refined a reading the words of OUT own promises just because we have power enough to give us leave to read them as we please. The... | |
 | 1914 - 830 pages
...consented," says the President, "to the treaty; its language we accepted, if we did not originate it; and we are too big, too powerful, too .self-respecting...to interpret with too strained or refined a reading of words of our own promises just because we have power enough to give us leave to read them as we... | |
 | Miles Dobson - California - 1914 - 176 pages
...and too self-respecting a nation to interpret with too strained or refined reading, the words of our promises, just because we have power enough to give us leave to read them as we please. The large thing to do is the only thing we can afford to do, and that is a voluntary withdrawal from... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - Anthropology - 1914 - 386 pages
...Treaty he said : "We consented to the treaty; its language we accepted, if we did not originate it; and we are too big, too powerful, too self-respecting a nation to interpret with a too-strained or refined reading the words of our own promises just because we have power enough to... | |
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