Word: borah
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...yield neither to Senator Borah not to any other man in admiration of the Farewell Address; ..... but I believe that the greatness of Washington was due to his looking the facts of the day in the face, and determining his conduct thereby, instead of by utterances, however wise, of a hundred and fifty years before." These words, written by President Lowell in answer to Senator Borah's attack on him of his lack of reverence for Washington's last official words, are irrefutable. Looking the facts in the face is what the whole world must do unless it desires...
...should like to ask Mr. Borah whom he regards as an ultimate authority on statesmanship. He once declared that if the Savior should reappear on earth and support the league, he would nevertheless vote against it. And yet this illustrious senator terms President Lowell a traitor to the past because he does not apply the words of Washington, uttered more than a century ago, to the events of today. Surely the senator from Idaho is oddly inconsistent...
Following the violent personal attack upon him made on the floor of the Senate Monday afternoon by Senator Borah, in which the Senator from Idaho denounced the attitude taken in the Lodge-Lowell debate on the League of Nations last spring, President A. Lawrence Lowell yesterday issued the following statement...
...yield neither to Senator Borah nor any other man in admiration of the farewell address and of the great Fathers of the Republic, but I would not use them as a cover for present party politics. Never did I sneer at the farewell address; but I believe that the greatness of Washington was due to his looking the facts of his day in the face and determining his conduct thereby, instead of by utterances, however wise, of a hundred and fifty years before. I will trust the American people not to mistake short-signtednss for patriotism or narrow-mindedness...
...document asserted to be an authentic draft of the peace terms was brought to the Senate by Mr. Borah, the same man who refused the President's invitation to an informal conference at the dinner table about the League of Nations, an occasion attended by all his colleagues. Doubtless by both of these discourteous actions he has gained political notoriety. But we feel certain that the bulk of Americans, Republicans and Democrats, respecting the dignity and unity of purpose of the nation, will repudiate his policy and will regret that the Senate has accepted from him a document of such...