Modern Political Tendencies and the Effect of the War ThereonPrinceton University Press, 1919 - 119 pages |
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activities adopted affords agitation amounts Austria-Hungary authority autocracy autocratic auton awakening budget Cabinet officers cent changing relation cial citizens citizenship classes committees consideration Constitution coun created demands desire disposition duties effect election England equal ernment excess profits taxes executive existing expenditures favor German Empire governmental greater GROVER CLEVELAND House of Representatives Houses of Congress human humanitarianism illustration imposed increased individual industry influence interests labor laissez faire larger lative League of Nations legislative bodies Legislature liberal manifest ment methods movement necessary parties peace poli political tendencies popular institutions popular rule present President prestige privileges progress prominent promote provision public ownership questions quired reforms regard regulations responsibility result revenue Russia secure Senate Serbia sion so-called social spirit statutes suffrage tained taxation THEODORE E tical tion tive trade United universal suffrage
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Page 25 - To him that hath shall be given ; and from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
Page 90 - The members of the League agree to encourage and promote the establishment and co-operation of duly authorized voluntary national Red Cross organizations having as purposes improvement of health, the prevention of disease and the mitigation of suffering throughout the world.
Page 115 - 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.
Page 18 - It follows upon the long discipline which gives a people self-possession, self-mastery, the habit of order, and peace and common counsel and a reverence for law.
Page 53 - ... desires without regard to the revenues or other needs of government, and as a result the aggregate of these estimates mounts into a sum which bears no responsible relation either to any consistent plan for expenditures for the coming year or to any plan for raising revenue. In size they are limited only by the enthusiasm of each bureau chief for the activities of his own bureau.
Page 21 - Mill said, that the only purpose for which power can be rightly exerted over any member of a civilized community against his will, was to prevent harm to others. His own good, physical or moral, was not sufficient warrant for governmental interference.
Page 97 - Shaw has defined socialism as a state of society in which the income of the country shall be divided equally among the inhabitants without regard to their character, their industry, or any other consideration except the fact that they are human beings.
Page 21 - All that industry and commerce ask of the state is that which Diogenes asked of Alexander, 'Keep out of my sunshine'.
Page 10 - Her reign was followed by that of James I, in which an even greater contribution perhaps was made to progress in the publication by Francis Bacon of the theory of Inductive Philosophy. Science which theretofore had been sporadic in its...
Page 11 - Webster's career promoted unity, and but for them that splendid expression of his, "Liberty and Union now and forever, one and inseparable," might have been the dream of an idealist.