 | Chalmers Johnson - History - 2004 - 408 pages
...more ambitious war aim: "The world must be made safe for democracy." America, he explained, must fight "for the rights and liberties of small nations, for...all nations and make the world itself at last free." According to Wilson, these were purposes "we have always carried nearest to our hearts."16 He asked... | |
 | Joy Hakim - History - 2003 - 438 pages
...to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried nearest our hearts — for...voice in their own governments, for the rights and libeities of small nations, for a universal domination of right lr\i such a concert of free peoples... | |
 | Sydney E. Ahlstrom - Religion - 2004 - 1220 pages
...and disastrous of all wars. . . . But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight ... for a universal dominion of right by such a concert...all nations and make the world itself at last free." Looking back on 7. New Republic 11:297; quoted in Ray H. Abrams, Preachers Present Arms, p. 8. 882... | |
 | Richard F. Hamilton, Holger H. Herwig - History - 2004 - 292 pages
...that "the right is more precious than peace" and that Americans would be fighting "for democracy, ... for a universal dominion of right by such a concert...peace and safety to all nations and make the world at last free. To such a task we can dedicate our lives and our fortunes " Wilson carried substantial... | |
 | Alan Brinkley, Davis Dyer - Executive power - 2004 - 604 pages
...liberty." Americans would be fighting, then, not for conquest or even in defense of neutral rights, but "for a universal dominion of right by such a concert...as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and the world itself at last free" — a program attainable, now, apparently only through the crucible... | |
 | David F. Burg, Edward L. Purcell, L. Edward Purcell - History - 2004 - 342 pages
...balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight ... for democracy, for the rights of those who submit to authority to have a voice in...Governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, fora universal dominion of right by sucha concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to... | |
 | Kevin Boyle - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 450 pages
...States fought not for territorial gain, Wilson said in his achingly eloquent address to the nation, but "for democracy, for the right of those who submit...to have a voice in their own Governments, . . . for a universal dominion of rights by ... a concert of free peoples."38 For the Talented Tenth, it was... | |
 | Steven R. Weisman - Business & Economics - 2004 - 436 pages
...peaceful people into war," Wilson declared. "But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts." As the President spoke, Senator La Follette was chewing gum and not wearing the American flag pin sported... | |
 | Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 294 pages
...civilization itself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried...nations and make the world itself at last free. To such a task we can dedicate our lives and our fortunes, everything that we are and everything that... | |
 | Steve Pribish - Fiction - 2005 - 233 pages
...than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts—for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority...nations and make the world itself at last free. To such a task we can dedicate our lives and our fortunes, everything that we are and everything that... | |
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But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts — for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own Governments... 
