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... individuals that their wrath and hostility are directed , but against Germany's policy of aggression and oppression . They do not desire to exterminate the German peo- ple , but they are determined to exterminate the policy 42 THE AIMS ...
... individuals that their wrath and hostility are directed , but against Germany's policy of aggression and oppression . They do not desire to exterminate the German peo- ple , but they are determined to exterminate the policy 42 THE AIMS ...
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... individual citizen a deeper sense of power and responsibility as the attributes of a free man . We know , too , that as the price of liberty is perpetual vigilance , so its surest safeguard is the passion for liberty in the hearts of ...
... individual citizen a deeper sense of power and responsibility as the attributes of a free man . We know , too , that as the price of liberty is perpetual vigilance , so its surest safeguard is the passion for liberty in the hearts of ...
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... individual in- terests . National prosperity cannot be truly ap- praised by the wealth of the few , but by the content- ment and happiness of the community as a whole and their ability to satisfy , not only their social re- quirements ...
... individual in- terests . National prosperity cannot be truly ap- praised by the wealth of the few , but by the content- ment and happiness of the community as a whole and their ability to satisfy , not only their social re- quirements ...
Page 94
... individual also is recognised . The society of nations is founded on the comity of individuals . And there is an obvious danger in over - looking the supreme importance of character as an indispensable factor in national and interna ...
... individual also is recognised . The society of nations is founded on the comity of individuals . And there is an obvious danger in over - looking the supreme importance of character as an indispensable factor in national and interna ...
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... individuals in the aggregate . And demo- cracy can never rise to the full greatness of its possibilities unless the individual rises to the highest point of moral greatness . Men and women with low moral standards are the weakest links ...
... individuals in the aggregate . And demo- cracy can never rise to the full greatness of its possibilities unless the individual rises to the highest point of moral greatness . Men and women with low moral standards are the weakest links ...
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Page 112 - If we in Britain are to escape from the decay of civilization itself, which the Japanese statesman foresees, we must insure that what is presently to be built up is a new social order, based not on fighting, but on fraternity — not on the competitive struggle for the means of bare life, but on a deliberately planned cooperation in production and distribution for the benefit of all who participate by hand or by brain...
Page 44 - The treaties and agreements which bring it to an end must embody terms which will create a peace that is worth guaranteeing and preserving, a peace that will win the approval of mankind, not merely a peace that will serve the several interests and immediate aims of the nations engaged.
Page 119 - Nation's industry, no longer deflected by individual profiteering, on the basis of the common ownership of the means of production; the equitable sharing of the proceeds among all who participate in any capacity and only among these...
Page 126 - Infancy) which is still so scandalously insufficient; for the Aged and those prematurely incapacitated by accident or disease, now in many ways so imperfectly cared for ; for the Education alike of children, of adolescents and of adults, in which the Labour Party demands a genuine equality of opportunity, overcoming all differences of material circumstances ; and for the organisation of public improvements of all kinds, including the brightening of the lives of those now condemned to almost ceaseless...
Page 102 - Fourth, that all well-defined national aspirations shall be accorded the utmost satisfaction that can be accorded them without introducing new or perpetuating old elements of discord and antagonism that would be likely in time to break the peace of Europe and consequently of the world.
Page 64 - The time has arrived when all possible encouragement should be given to the development of imperial resources and especially to making the Empire independent of other countries in respect of food supplies, raw materials, and essential industries.
Page 109 - No annexations or punitive indemnities, and the right of all peoples to self-determination," and that they are working with all their power to obtain from their Governments the necessary guarantees to apply these principles honestly and unreservedly to all questions to be dealt with at any official peace conference.
Page 112 - ... and wage-slavery; with its glorification of the unhampered struggle for the means of life and its hypocritical pretense of the "survival of the fittest"; with the monstrous inequality of circumstances which it produces and the degradation and brutalization, both moral and spiritual, resulting therefrom, may, we hope, indeed have received a death blow.
Page 125 - In the disposal of the surplus above the Standard of Life, society has hitherto gone as far wrong as in its neglect to secure the necessary basis of any genuine industrial efficiency or decent social order. We have allowed the riches of our mines, the rental value of the lands superior to the margin of cultivation, the extra profits of the fortunate capitalists, even the material outcome of scientific discoveries — which ought by now to have made this Britain of ours immune from class poverty or...
Page 117 - ... in the first years of peace, it is essential that the Government should make all necessary preparations for putting instantly in hand, directly or through the Local Authorities, such urgently needed public works as (a) the rehousing of the population alike in rural districts, mining villages, and town slums, to the extent, possibly, of a million new cottages and an outlay of...