 | 1924 - 680 pages
...it is worth remembering for Secretary Olney's restatement of the great Doctrine. 'To-day,' he wrote, 'the United States is practically sovereign on this...subjects to which it confines its interposition.' It is not necessary to inquire carefully to what subjects it will confine its interposition. Its sentiment... | |
 | History, Modern - 1897 - 402 pages
...the regard and respect of other States it must be largely dependent upon its own strength and power. To-day the United States is practically Sovereign...the subjects to which it confines its interposition. Why? It is not because of the pure friendship or good-will felt for it. It is not simply by reason... | |
 | Literature - 1963 - 346 pages
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 | John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - History - 1902 - 886 pages
...and inexpedient"; that the interests " of Europe are irreconcilably diverse from those of America"; that " to-day the United States is practically sovereign...subjects to which it confines its interposition"; that it is "master of the situation." V. >!.. VII. — 6. These weighty declarations were further asserted... | |
 | Arthur Irwin Street - Guyana - 1895 - 50 pages
...other states it must be largely dependent upon its own strength and power. SUPREME ON THIS CONTINENT. To-day the United States is practically sovereign...the subjects to which it confines Its interposition. Why? It is not because of the pure friendship or good will felt, for it. It is not simply by reason... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1896 - 800 pages
...American states, and, so far as I can see, over the American colonies of European powers. His words are: "To-day the United States is practically sovereign...subjects to which it confines its interposition." Leading up to this imperial utterance, he had said a few sentences back : " That distance and three... | |
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To-day the United States is practically sovereign on this continent, and its fiat is law upon the subjects to which it confines its interposition. 
