The Gettysburg Address
The Gettysburg Address

Author: Abraham Lincoln

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2022-11-29

Total Pages: 9

ISBN-13: 1504080246

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The complete text of one of the most important speeches in American history, delivered by President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War. On November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln arrived at the battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to remember not only the grim bloodshed that had just occurred there, but also to remember the American ideals that were being put to the ultimate test by the Civil War. A rousing appeal to the nation’s better angels, The Gettysburg Address remains an inspiring vision of the United States as a country “conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”

War Addresses, 1915-1917
War Addresses, 1915-1917

Author: Henry Cabot Lodge

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2012-07

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 9781458948960

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: VI NATIONAL DEFENCE ADDRESS DELIVERED BEFORE THE NATIONAL SECURITY LEAGUE AT WASHINGTON, JANUARY 22, 1916 NATIONAL DEFENCE Mr. Chairman, Ladiks And Gentlemen, I am deeply interested in the purpose for which this National Security League has been formed. I believe your meeting here cannot fail to do good in moulding and making public opinion. But I think you will agree with me that the most important thing is that this league should so work and should use its power in such a way as to bring practical results in the shape of legislation for national defence. Even were I master of eloquence, I should not attempt it to-night. I merely wish to offer to you a few practical suggestions drawn from some years of observation in Washington. There are two kinds of questions which it is extremely difficult to argue. One is where the question is new, doubtful, intricate, and complicated. The other is when a question is so simple that it is difficult to understand how there can be any difference of opinion in regard to it. The subject of national defence belongs, to my mind, in the latter class. The proposition, as I should put it, is something like this: Every nation should have sufficient military and naval defence to maintain its own peace and security. This nation has not such defence. Therefore it is the duty of this nation to look to it that suitable provision is made. It appears to me that this little syllogism is so simple and so obvious that almost any one with the sight of an average mole could see it. And yet 1 knowthat there is a great deal of opposition, in certain quarters, to the proposition. I quite agree that it is not a party question. I should be sorry, indeed, to think that national defence could be a party question. But I will say this that if those gentlemen, ..

Addresses on War (Classic Reprint)
Addresses on War (Classic Reprint)

Author: Charles Sumner

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-05

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 9781330758502

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Excerpt from Addresses on War Charles Sumner began his public life by what he himself called a declaration of war against war. His great oration in Tremont Temple on "The True Grandeur of Nations" marked, his biographer rightly observes, the most important epoch in Sumner's life. "Had he died before this event, his memory would have been only a tradition with the few early friends who survive him. The 4th of July, 1845, gave him a national, and more than a national, fame." Epoch-making in Sumner's own life, we think it may be safely said that no oration which he ever gave has greater intrinsic importance, and perhaps no other will be read so long. Of all pleas made by American men for the rule of peace on earth, it is the noblest and the most comprehensive, save Sumner's own later address on "The War System of Nations." There is almost no argument against war which these orations and their successor do not somehow make use of; and the advocate of peace in all the years returns to them, and returns again, for support and inspiration. The bringing together in a single volume, as is now done for the first time, of all of Sumner's three great addresses on war and peace is a distinct public service; and every philanthropist and every true philo-American will wish the volume the widest currency and influence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Two-sided World-view in Roosevelt ́s "First War Address Before Congress"
The Two-sided World-view in Roosevelt ́s

Author: Renate Bagossy

Publisher: GRIN Verlag

Published: 2008-08-11

Total Pages: 58

ISBN-13: 3640129407

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Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject American Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,3 (A), Martin Luther University (Institute for Anglistics/American Studies), course: Rhetorical Analysis of Historical and Present-day Political Speeches, language: English, abstract: After the Japanese attack on the United States Navy base at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the United States declared war on Japan. When Germany and Italy then declared war against the United States, World War II truly became worldwide. In his speech First War Address Before Congress, made on January 6, 1942 President Franklin D. Roosevelt mentions several things: past historical events that led to the present situation, the necessity of war-production, the attempt to justify war, the creation of a negative picture of the enemy and a positive picture of his own people and claims that only total victory over the enemy can end the war, to mention just a few. War rhetoric as such is part of the actual war, so its creation and development goes back quite a time in history as the human race has always made war upon each other. The first war message of the United States was the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Besides the common features of war rhetoric the Declaration of Independence and later United States ́ war messages (up to today′s messages by George W. Bush) also include specific American features. In this term paper I am going to show that by using the techniques of war rhetoric Franklin Delano Roosevelt creates an imaginary two-sided world. To emphasize the importance of this two-sided world-view and for an overview that will serve for the whole term paper I collected and arranged examples from the speech in two charts. After setting up the two sides I will go into further detail and examine this both sides in more detail: the creation of a negative picture of the enemy on the one side and the diminishing of one ́s own soldiers` actions by using euphemisms on the other side. The overall aim

The Russian Understanding of War
The Russian Understanding of War

Author: Oscar Jonsson

Publisher: Georgetown University Press

Published: 2019-11-01

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1626167346

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This book analyzes the evolution of Russian military thought and how Russia's current thinking about war is reflected in recent crises. While other books describe current Russian practice, Oscar Jonsson provides the long view to show how Russian military strategic thinking has developed from the Bolshevik Revolution to the present. He closely examines Russian primary sources including security doctrines and the writings and statements of Russian military theorists and political elites. What Jonsson reveals is that Russia's conception of the very nature of war is now changing, as Russian elites see information warfare and political subversion as the most important ways to conduct contemporary war. Since information warfare and political subversion are below the traditional threshold of armed violence, this has blurred the boundaries between war and peace. Jonsson also finds that Russian leaders have, particularly since 2011/12, considered themselves to be at war with the United States and its allies, albeit with non-violent means. This book provides much needed context and analysis to be able to understand recent Russian interventions in Crimea and eastern Ukraine, how to deter Russia on the eastern borders of NATO, and how the West must also learn to avoid inadvertent escalation.

The War System of the Commonwealth of Nations
The War System of the Commonwealth of Nations

Author: Charles 1811-1874 Sumner

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2021-09-09

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13: 9781013764318

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Why War?
Why War?

Author: Nicholas Murray Butler

Publisher: Port Washington, N.Y : Kennikat Press

Published: 1969

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13:

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