Autor: DiscursosBP
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Address to Congress about the war
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en DiscursosThe effect of the war upon the United States will depend upon what American citizens say and do. Every man who really loves America will act and speak in the true spirit of neutrality, which is the spirit of impartiality and fairness and friendliness to all concerned. The spirit of the nation in this critical…
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To the Guards at Potsdam
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en DiscursosFormer generations as well as those who stand here today have often seen the soldiers of the First Guard Regiment and My Guards at this place. We were brought together then by an oath of allegiance which we swore before God. Today all have gathered to pray for the triumph of our weapons, for now…
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First war address
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en DiscursosGentlemen: France has just been the object of a violent and premeditated attack, which is an insolent defiance of the law of nations. Before any declaration of war had been sent to us, even before the German Ambassador had asked for his passports, our territory has been violated. The German Empire has waited till yesterday…
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Address to the Belgian Parliament
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en DiscursosGentlemen: Never, since 1839, has a more solemn hour struck for Belgium: the integrity of our territory is threatened. The very force of our righteous cause, the sympathy which Belgium, proud of her free institutions and her moral victories, has always received from other nations, and the necessity of our autonomous existence in respect of…
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Speech from the Balcony of the Royal Palace
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en DiscursosA momentous hour has struck for Germany. Envious rivals everywhere force us to legitimate defense. The sword has been forced into our hands. I hope that in the event that my efforts to the very last moment do not succeed in bringing our opponents to reason and in preserving peace, we may use the sword,…
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L’Allemagne et l’Autriche (dernier discours)
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en DiscursosCITOYENS, Je veux vous dire ce soir que jamais nous n’avons été, que jamais depuis quarante ans l’Europe n’a été dans une situation plus menaçante et plus tragique que celle où nous sommes à l’heure où j’ai la responsabilité de vous adresser la parole. Ah ! citoyens, je ne veux pas forcer les couleurs sombres…
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En favor del abandono de Marruecos
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en DiscursosSeñores diputados, no extrañará seguramente a nadie mi intervención en este debate, no obstante haber llevado la representación de la minoría de conjunción republicano socialista el señor Rodés; y no extrañará, por la representación que yo tengo aquí de una fuerza política que ha actuado en, la, campaña que se ha realizado contra la guerra…
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Vieja y nueva política
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en DiscursosAntes de comenzar a decir lo que he de deciros tengo que empezar dándoos gracias por la benévola curiosidad con que habéis acudido a esta cita de difusa esperanza española, y pediros que, dilatando un poco más vuestra benevolencia, suspendáis un momento los juicios previos que hayáis formado sobre lo que este acto, como todo…
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Freedom or Death speech
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en DiscursosI do not come here as an advocate, because whatever position the suffrage movement may occupy in the United States of America, in England it has passed beyond the realm of advocacy and it has entered into the sphere of practical politics. It has become the subject of revolution and civil war, and so tonight…
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Adress at Gettisburg
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en DiscursosFriends and Fellow Citizens: I need not tell you what the Battle of Gettysburg meant. These gallant men in blue and gray sit all about us here. Many of them met upon this ground in grim and deadly struggle. Upon these famous fields and hillsides their comrades died about them. In their presence it were…