Democracy's International LawJ. Byrne & Company, 1922 - 165 pàgines |
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Pàgina 68 - When thou hearest the fool rejoicing, and he saith, ' It is over and past, And the wrong was better than right, and hate turns into love at the last, And we strove for nothing at all, and the Gods are fallen asleep ; For so good is the world a growing that the evil good shall reap...
Pàgina 8 - The government proceeds directly from the people; is "ordained and established " in the name of the people; and is declared to be ordained "in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, and secure the blessings of liberty to themselves and to their posterity.
Pàgina 10 - ... set forth in the Declaration of Independence to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness ? It is for us in our little day to do what we can toward translating that dictum.
Pàgina 111 - Without lengthening the discussion, we may believe that armed conflict has not on the whole advanced the rule of right. When at one time war has served to check inordinate ambition, at as many others it has furthered its purposes. We may concede that in private matters justice has often gone forward with halting steps, has even at times seemed to go backward ; yet who among us would dispense with the conclusions of judge and jury and revive the wager of battle? From the beginning, with the advantage...
Pàgina 64 - ... twere, the mirror up to Nature; to show Virtue her own feature, Scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.
Pàgina 9 - Law, in its technical sense, is a rule of civil conduct, prescribed by competent political authority, commanding certain things as necessary to, and forbidding other certain things as inconsistent with, the peace and order of society.
Pàgina 8 - ... compensation laws are in actual operation. His contention was, that the constitution gave the right of the federal government to enact a law covering this feature and putting it into actual operation by an excise tax, and he based his contention on the opening section of the constitution of the United States, which says: "We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general...
Pàgina 122 - ... recognition of the equality of human beings, which in the last analysis denies the right of one man to require another to sacrifice his life and property without just cause, duly ascertained by cold and competent tribunals, there must come a time when war will be looked upon as the crime that it is. The stars in their courses fight for us. Let it not be said that I am inappreciative of the dignity of war and of the importance of the causes leading up to it. War has no dignity. It offers a tragedy...
Pàgina 48 - Pasha, all the economic questions connected with the German enterprises were regulated, in substantial accord with the desires of the German Bank. The most important concession made to me personally by Sir Edward Grey was the prolongation of the railway to Basra. This particular object had been abandoned, on our part, in favor of a connection with Alexandretta. Up to this time Bagdad formed the terminus of the line. Navigation on the Shatt-el-Arab...
Pàgina 39 - Sovereignty is supreme authority, an authority which is independent of any other earthly authority. Sovereignty in the strict and narrowest sense of the term includes, therefore, independence all round, within and without the borders of the country.