 | 1918 - 728 str.
...nation, but only a vindication of right — of human right of which we are only a single champion. Because submarines are in effect outlaws when used...would defend themselves against privateers or cruisers which are visible craft, when given chase upon the open sea. It is common prudence in such circumstances,... | |
 | 1917 - 884 str.
...recognized, as our Admiralty had to recognize long ago in its orders to our armed merchantmen, that "submarines are in effect outlaws when used as the...submarines have been used against merchant shipping," and that it is impossible in individual cases for the victim to delay its defense till a torpedo has... | |
 | Roady Kenehan - 1917 - 614 str.
...assert our neutral rights with arms, our right to use the seas against unlawful interference, our right to keep our people safe against unlawful violence....merchantmen would defend themselves against privateers or cmisers, visible craft giving chase upon the open sea. It is common prudence in such circumstances,... | |
 | Francis Joseph Reynolds, Allen Leon Churchill, Francis Trevelyan Miller - 1916 - 544 str.
...assert our neutral rights with arms, our right to use the seas against unlawful interference, our right to keep our people safe against unlawful violence....armed neutrality, it now appears, is impracticable. merchant ships will be treated as beyond the pale of law and subject to be dealt with as pirates would... | |
 | Algie Martin Simons, Charles H. Kerr - 1916 - 770 str.
...assert our neutral rights with arms, our right to use the seas against unlawful interference, our right to keep our people safe against unlawful violence....armed neutrality, it now appears, is impracticable. . . . The German government denies the right of neutrals to use arms at all within the areas of the... | |
 | Hongwanji mission, Honolulu - 1917 - 226 str.
...assert our neutral rights with arms, our right to use the seas against unlawful interference, our right to keep our people safe against unlawful violence....giving chase upon the open sea. It is common prudence to such circumstances, grim necessity indeed, to endeavor to destroy them before they have shown their... | |
 | 1917 - 200 str.
...assert our neutral rights with arms, our right to use the seas against unlawful interference, our right to keep our people safe against unlawful violence....has assumed that merchantmen would defend themselves WHEN PRESIDENT WILSON WAS INAUGURATED against privateers or cruisers, visible craft giving chase upon... | |
 | Simeon Davidson Fess - 1917 - 464 str.
...assert our neutral rights with arms, our right to use the seas against unlawful interference, our right to keep our people safe against unlawful violence....their attacks as the law of nations has assumed that merchantment would defend themselves against privateers or cruisers, visible craft giving chase upon... | |
 | 1917 - 674 str.
...assert our neutral rights with arms, our right to use the seas against unlawful interference, our right to keep our people safe against unlawful violence....against merchant shipping, it is impossible to defend ship against their attacks as the law of nations has assumed that merchantment would defend themselves... | |
 | William Lightfoot Visscher - 1917 - 136 str.
...assert our neutral rights with arms, our right to use the seas against unlawful interference, our right to keep our people safe against unlawful violence....submarines have been used against merchant shipping, it is imposPRESIDENT WILSON'S GREAT MESSAGE. 119 sible to defend ships against their attacks as the law of... | |
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When I addressed the Congress on the 26th of February last I thought that it would suffice to assert our neutral rights with arms, our right to use the seas against unlawful interference, our right to keep our people safe against unlawful violence. But... 
