Word: sovereigns
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...away; it is to remember throughout a conflict its true cause and not to permit childish credulity and unreasoning desire to blind the nation into waging a barbaric war of hate and revenge, blood-lust and conquest. If we fight it will be to maintain our rights as a sovereign nation with honor and dignity; our aim will be to prevent our rights from violation in the future and it will not be merely to punish a present offender, for punishment is a means to an end and not an end in itself. It is regrettable that among civilized nations...
...short, while it is not my purpose in this small space to attempt anything so unnecessary as a defence of the sovereign pontiff of Catholic Christendom. I do wish to insist that an insult to the Catholic faith is an insult to Harvard, and a retrogression to less tolerant times. The editors of the Monthly no doubt acted thoughtlessly, but none the less they made a mistake. They would have seen, had they reflected, that good taste demanded the suppression of a work which might give pain. H. T. CAREY...
...unless the problems at issue are of fundamental and vital importance. That the concert of Europe had for some purposes at least grown into a sort of federation of the world, is seen by the fact that while at the first Hague Conference, but 26 of the 59 sovereign powers of the world were represented, at the Hague Conference of 1907 49 powers were represented...