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Stephen Decatur
Remember when Disclosure, a private service, supplied the only real access to Securities and Exchange Commission reports — at a hefty fee? This could mean the elimination of federal depositories over time. It will then be my duty to use my efforts to restore peace at the earliest practicable moment that it can be done on just and honorable principles. We did no more than what our kingdom's peace and prosperity required us to do. It is enough that you oppose Metasoft. Like many iconic phrases, however, it has been often misquoted, taken out of context, and misused. But think of this: If Stauffenberg had succeeded that July day, he would have saved Germany from the ruin Hitler left in 1945.
My country right or wrong; when right, by Carl Schurz
Enoch Powell: No, Prime Minister, values exist in a transcendental realm, beyond space and time. In subsequent years he achieved international fame not only for his work as a great jurist, but also as the author of legal text books which are still used in universities all over the world. In 1877, Schurz was appointed Secretary of the Interior by Hayes, who had been by then been elected. The story enared from a continual battle royal between Inditer's leading Canadian writer Grant Deman and myself over the War of 1812. The truth is that Texas had agreed upon the Nueces as her boundary.
The Literary Society in Peace and War. I know it is said that a large army and heavy appropriations will make a short war. Stauffenberg's motives, in short, were patriotic. Especially in this campaign, and throughout his career as a Senator and afterwards, he was a target for the pen of artist , usually in an unfavorable way. The Schurz sank after a collision on 21 June 1918 off Beaufort Inlet, Florida. Decatur was one of the fathers of the U. A judge does not make the laws.
Delegation of Ute Indians in Washington, D. They are 'only doing their duty', as the saying goes. Our people feel no hostility to those of Mexico. Carl Schurz is Don Quixote in this cartoon by from Harper's Weekly of April 6, 1872 In the summer of 1865, President sent Schurz through the South to study conditions. Can we invoke the blessing of Deity to rest on such motives? The United States doesn't need me to dictate, or worse, deprive her people of that most precious gift.
It is rather a prayer for guidance, wisdom, and temperance in foreign relations. The great charter of our political liberties has been tamely surrendered by our free States to purchase perpetual slavery for the South. I prefer to betray the electorate. Newspaper editors across the nation, whether they agreed with the commodore or not, reprinted the quote. They carry a deep love of their country, and wish it to succeed, preferably more so than their neighbors.
It works the same in every country. He resigned from the army after the war ended in April 1865. We are the Red Wings, the pride of Baron! Sir, I regard this war as but one scene in the drama now being enacted by this Administration. Republican, pro French, newspapers were closed. We want to hear what you think about this article. Formerly the small unprotected cruiser of the , the ship had been taken over by the U. Why, sir, look at General Taylor's report, and you will see a devotion manifested by the officers and peasantry of Mexico that speaks in thunder tones to those who regard the conquest of that people as a trifling matter.
It is not our place to question the orders of our king. Schurz lost his own 1874 re-election bid and resumed his career as a newspaper editor. Nationalistic fervor has strengths and benefits, also, but these are so often subsumed by the mass of negatives that their justification becomes all but impossible. I am led to this inevitable conclusion from the fact that he dare not rest his justification upon truth. Murrow In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.
The President must have known, and we all know, that those military posts were established for the sole purpose of protecting the country, and the sending of our army there must have been done with the moral certainty that war would ensue. When the Executive and Congress openly and avowedly took upon themselves the responsibility of extending and perpetuating slavery by the annexation of Texas, and by the total overthrow and subversion of the Constitution, and that, too, by the aid of Northern votes, my confidence in the stability of our institutions was shaken, destroyed. All fully expected this would precipitate a military response by Mexico. Decatur is a man for our time, and his words are very much words for our time. In December 1803 the frigate U. . As wars do, this one has left in its wake many of the same questions about patriotism that Stauffenberg raised when he slipped that briefcase under that table.
