Word: self-respect
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...represent all-Russia and dissolved three years ago by the Bolsheviki when they set up by force their military regime. Former Premier Kerensky has issued a manifesto calling a hundred members to a conference in Paris "to devise ways and means for the defense of the honor, the self-respect and patrimony of Russia before the peoples of the entire world until such time when the peoples of Russia, by their own action and free will, will restore and recognize a legally constituted Russian state...
...Mexican house in order and keeping it in order." Do you, or does any other American, think that Mexico will submit to a mandate or any other kind of protectorate without resistance? Then you do indeed know the Mexicans but little, for that matter, no country, with any self-respect will. Even as little a nation as Nicaragua didn't accept a mandate without bloodshed and protests. How can Mexico? You tell us that "war may be an amusing national industry, but it is rarely a profitable or a healthy one.' And then you propose to send us headlong into...
...Fall resolution in regard to Mexico outlines the only policy consistent with our self-respect and well-being. If a stable government not unfriendly to Americans is set up in Mexico it should receive every aid in order that order, peace, and prosperity be brought to the land of chaos. If such a government is not set up, the United States acting for the protection of its own citizens and as the champion of civilization is bound to "send a police force consisting of the military and naval forces of our government into the republic of Mexico to open...
There have been humiliating episodes in the history of the United States, but nothing else that was quite so humiliating as this; nothing else that so sharply challenged the capacity of the American people for self-government; nothing else that so sweepingly indicted their national self-respect and their sense of responsibility. On the whole, the records of the Senate since the Treaty of Versailles was formally submitted by President Wilson, July 10, 1919, constitue the most mortifying chapter in American history...
...officers of the Twenty-sixth division is unworthy of those who should, by their actions and by their attitude, prove themselves fit to uphold the American traditions of military courtesy. There are many in high places who appear to put politics above patriotism, who so far lack dignity and self-respect as to regard themselves in the light of political henchmen rather than "officers and gentlemen...