 | World War, 1914-1918 - 1917 - 260 pages
...in vain. First of all, we may properly insist on the rights of nationalities, on the recognition of the principle "that governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed, and that no right anywhere exists to hand people about from sovereignty to sovereignty... | |
 | Citizenship - 1917 - 630 pages
...founded upon "an equality of rights" among nations, great and small alike, recognizing and accepting the principle that "governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed," who would stay the hand thus directed? The man who does that will stand first in the... | |
 | Albert Frederick Pollard - Great Britain - 1917 - 272 pages
...revolution in Germany and perhaps another in Russia ; for we can hardly imagine a Hohenzollern accepting " the principle that Governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed ". But if the Poles, who are not an organized nation, are to be formed into " a united,... | |
 | Paul Jamarik - Hungary - 1917 - 38 pages
...new state boundaries. "Any peace", says President Wilson, "which does not recognize and accept this principle (that "Governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed") will inevitably be upset. It will not rest upon the affections or the convictions of... | |
 | United States. President (1913-1921 : Wilson) - United States - 1918 - 522 pages
...involved than even equality of right among organized nations. No peace can last, or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principle...governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed, and that no right anywhere exists to hand peoples about from sovereignty to sovereignty... | |
 | Bohemia (Czech Republic) - 1917 - 456 pages
...Thomas Curtin In his speech to the Senate President Wilson said : "No peace can last, or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principle...Governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed. . . . No nation should seek to extend its polity over any other nation or people, but... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - Almanacs, American - 1918 - 850 pages
...Involved than even equality or right among organized nations. No peace can last, or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principle...governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed, and that no right anywhere exists to hand peoples aiiuut from sovereignty to sovereignty... | |
 | United States. President (1913-1921 : Wilson), Woodrow Wilson - Presidents - 1918 - 186 pages
...involved than even equality of rights among organized nations. No peace can last, or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principle...Governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed, and that no right anywhere exists to hand peoples about from sovereignty to sovereignty... | |
 | James Harvey Robinson - Europe - 1918 - 896 pages
...Peace conference at BrestLitovsk, December, 1917 " No peace can last," he declared, " or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principle...governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed, and that no right anywhere exists to hand peoples about from sovereignty to sovereignty... | |
 | United States. President (1913-1921 : Wilson) - United States - 1918 - 522 pages
...involved than even equality of right among organized nations. No peace can last, or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principle...governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed, and that no right anywhere exists to hand peoples about from sovereignty to sovereignty... | |
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which does not recognize and accept the principle that governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed, and that no right anywhere exists to hand peoples about from potentate to potentate as if they were property. 
