International Realities

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C. Scribner, 1917 - 233 lappuses
 

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189. lappuse - Foreign politics demand scarcely any of those qualities which are peculiar to a democracy ; they require, on the contrary, the perfect use of almost all those in which it is deficient . . . [A] democracy can only with great difficulty regulate the details of an important undertaking, persevere in a fixed design, and work out its execution in spite of serious obstacles. It cannot combine its measures with secrecy or await their consequences with patience.
179. lappuse - As for myself, I do not hesitate to say that it is especially in the conduct of their foreign relations that democracies appear to me decidedly inferior to other governments.
131. lappuse - Seeing that, in this category of ideas, these rules should not, in principle, be altered, in the course of the war, by a neutral Power, except in a case where experience has shown the necessity for such change for the protection of the rights of that Power...
163. lappuse - ... judgment of civilization awards to the smallest and weakest state the liberty to control its own affairs without interference from any other Power, however great. The Monroe Doctrine does not infringe upon that right. It asserts the right. The declaration of Monroe was that the rights and interests of the United States were involved in maintaining a condition, and the condition to be maintained was the independence of all the American countries. It is " the free and independent condition which...
68. lappuse - Every nation is in law and before law the equal of every other nation belonging to the society of nations, and all nations have the right to claim and, according to the Declaration of Independence of the United States, " to assume, among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them.
68. lappuse - No principle of general law is more universally acknowledged than the. perfect equality of nations. Russia and Geneva have equal rights. It results from this equality, that no one can rightfully impose a rule on another. Each legislates for itself, but its legislation can operate on itself alone.
186. lappuse - France that nothing but the inflexible character of Washington, and the immense popularity which he enjoyed, could have prevented the Americans from declaring war against England. And even then, the exertions which the austere reason of that great man made to repress the generous but imprudent passions of his fellow-citizens, very nearly deprived him of the sole recompense which he had ever claimed — that of his country's love.
15. lappuse - If nations are not equal in moral, intellectual, or even material influence; if they have not an equal concern in the adjustment of international interests; if they have not an equal voice in the creation, the interpretation, and the enforcement of law; if, in fact, the claim to equality stands squarely in the way of world organization itself ; then it is folly to insist on the concept of equality as a basic principle of the law of nations.
45. lappuse - The one national gpjr;t spirit, which is something different from the average sum the contemporary spirit of all citizens, is the spirit of the State ; the one national will, which is different from the average will of the multitude, is the will of the State.
135. lappuse - We may sum up by saying that neutrality is not morally justifiable unless intervention in the war is unlikely to promote justice, or could do so only at a ruinous cost to the neutral.

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