Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...plan, as he spoke in an uncertain tone. He demanded of the affirmative that they produce some definite plan and tell what they considered to be a permanent court. Then he went on to show that permanent courts are impracticable, and that the affirmative was trying to do what statesmen have not been able to do in centuries. The negative, he said, favor arbitration of some kind but it is in the shape of a permanent system such as is prepared by Lord Salisbury. The charge advocated is radical and uncertain, as all plans for a permanent court have been...
...municipal suffrage for women.- (a) In many foreign countries she already possesses the power.- (1) England, Scotland, Wales.- (2) Australia and New Zealand.- (b) She possesses municipal suffrage in many States of the Union.- (c) Its extension has been favored, notably in Massachusetts, by many of the most eminent statesmen: W. S. Leaflet, Vol. I, No. 3 (Sept. 1888).- (d) It received 107,000 votes at the late referendum in this state...
...quote one of the leading American statesmen and lawyers in a speech delivered some months ago on this very subject: "Let it be equally well known and understood that any attempt of a non-American nation to sieze a foot of American soil will be treated as a declaration of war against the United States. Such is the Monroe Doctrine...
...education to be obtained in the schools, lycees and universities of the French Republic, is infinitely more thorough, broader, more liberal, more moral than the narrow, loose and sectarian education of the religious orders and especially of Jesuits, who have been so vigorously and justly denounced by philosophers and statesmen from Pascal to Gambetta and Jules Ferry and including Montesquieu, Voltaire and de Choiseul...
...Charles, looking at Bunker Hill and Boston. It is the boast of Boston; yet it were better for the life and morals of Boston that it were under the sea, or three hundred miles away in the woods of Maine. The day has been when Harvard produced giants-scholars, statesmen, soldiers and patriots; but that is only a tradition now. Harvard is simply a training school for the sons of the rich, a place where wealth is honored and glorified, where the rich man's son is taught his own importance and the dignity of his money bags. Harvard...