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We ought to avoid any compact which may endanger our being involved in them.
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gutenberg.orgAlbert Beveridge: “We ought to avoid any compact which may endanger our being involved in them.”
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Beveridge stresses the importance of avoiding agreements that could entangle America in foreign wars.
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He has raised the American people in their own esteem, and, if the influence of truth and justice, reason and argument is not lost in Europe, he has raised the consideration of the United States in that quarter of the world....
When he promotes his own, he promotes that of the community.
The Virginians, on their part, found the giving of new notes a convenient way of canceling old obligations and thus piled up mountains of debt which they found hard to remove.
As the French storm increased, its winds blew ever stronger over the responsive waters of American opinion.
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