 | Michael Mandelbaum - 2007 - 336 Seiten
...president, George Washington, declared, "It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period a great nation to give to mankind the magnanimous...always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence." Ibid., 3. The fourth president, James Madison, wrote, "The free system of government we have established... | |
 | 2008 - 194 Seiten
...the nation's responsibility: "It will be •worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period a great Nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous...a 'People always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.'"38 The cartoonist Charles Nelan •would later publish a version of Uncle Sam for The... | |
 | Carson Holloway - 2008 - 244 Seiten
...it?" He cited the utilitarian maxim that "honesty is always the best policy," but he exhorted America to "give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel...always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence" (W 972, 975, emphasis added). These balanced principles lie within the just war tradition of classical... | |
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Observe good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct: and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant... 
