 | United States. President (1913-1921 : Wilson) - 1918 - 538 pages
...it will lift it only here and there and without countenance except from a lawless and malignant few. It is a distressing and oppressive duty, Gentlemen...disastrous of all wars, civilization itself seeming to b» in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which... | |
 | United States. President (1913-1921 : Wilson) - 1918 - 526 pages
...it will lift it only here and there and without countenance except from a lawless and malignant few. It is a distressing and oppressive duty, Gentlemen...disastrous of all wars, civilization itself seeming to_b» in the" balance. But the right is more precious than j>eace,_and we shall fight for the things... | |
 | Vermont. State Board of Education, Clyde M. Hill, Clyde Milton Hill, John M. Avery - 1918 - 116 pages
...satisfied when those rights have been made as secure as the faith and the freedom of nations can make them "It is a distressing and oppressive duty, gentlemen...war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all warp, civilization itself seeming to be in the balance. "But the right is more precious than peace,... | |
 | United States. President (1913-1921 : Wilson) - 1918 - 528 pages
...countenance except from a lawless and malignant few.\ It is a distressing and oppressive duty, Gentlemen or the Congress, which I have performed in thus addressing...disastrous of all wars, civilization itself seeming to b» in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which... | |
 | United States. President (1913-1921 : Wilson), Woodrow Wilson - 1918 - 174 pages
...is a distressing and oppressive duty, gentlemen of the Congress, which I have performed in thus 44 addressing you. There are, it may be, many months...all wars, civilization itself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace,10 and we shall fight for the things which we have... | |
 | John Bach McMaster - 1918 - 550 pages
...from a lawless and malignant few. It is a distressing and oppressive duty, gentlemen of the Conpress, which I have performed in thus addressing you. There...fearful thing to lead this great, peaceful people into war—into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilization itself seeming to be in the balance.... | |
 | John Eisenhower - 2001 - 368 pages
...Imperial Germany. It was a difficult, even searing moment for him. "It is a fearful thing," he said, "to lead this great peaceful people into war, into...all wars, civilization itself seeming to be in the balance. But," he went on, ments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion... | |
 | Patrick J. Quinn - 2001 - 284 pages
...support for involvement was gaining ground. Surely, the about-turn from "keeping us out of war" to "It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful...into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars ..." within a five month period demonstrates just how the country was prepared by the printed and visual... | |
 | Stanley J. Michalak - 2001 - 260 pages
...calling for a declaration of war with Germany: "It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful nation into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of...all wars, civilization itself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than the peace, and we shall fight for the things which we... | |
 | James MacGregor Burns, Susan Dunn - 2001 - 716 pages
...They would never forget the tall, erect figure, his face pale and unsmiling, as he rose to his climax. "It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful...all wars, civilization itself seeming to be in the balance. Bur the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have... | |
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It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilization itself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which... 
