In framing a national policy of peace for the United States, we must constantly and clearly draw the line of distinction between the deep-seated original causes of war, and causes which are secondary, or merely precipitating incidents.
Has it occurred to you that, unless we wake up, mend our ways and change our national policy, war is ultimately as inevitable between the United States and Japan as it has been for years between France and Germany?
Australia and New Zealand have both demonstrated the practicability and proved the success of a national policy of land acquisition and colonization.
War is still employed as an instrument of national policy.
In fine, it is not an institution created for the purposes of commerce and profit alone, but much more for the purposes of national policy, as an auxiliary in the exercise of some of the highest powers of the government.
Local jealousies are rapidly yielding to more generous, enlarged, and enlightened views of national policy.
There is general acquiescence in our present tariff system as a national policy.
In short, they first perverted the protectionist system until it ceased to be a national policy; and then compromised it until it ceased to be any policy at all.
The Republican party was not entirely national, because it had originated partly in embittered sectional feeling, but it proclaimed a national idea and a national policy.
War may be and has been a useful and justifiable engine of national policy.
It is by such knowledge that local prejudices and jealousies are surmounted, and that a national policy, extending its fostering care and protection to all the great interests of our Union, is formed and steadily adhered to.
We began to arm before we knew for what we were arming, before we had a national policy, before we knew what we wanted or how to get it.
The element of national policy is evident in the fact that Holland--and England until the accession of James I in 1603--preferred war rather than acceptance of Spanish pretensions to exclusive rights in the southern seas.
But before a national policy is accepted, it must be thought out to its logical conclusion by both the popular leaders and naval advisers.
Were it quite certain that all this would become a permanent addition to the strength and resources of the nation, it {71} might well be an object of national policy to relieve them from other burdens, however fair in themselves.
In March, 1878, he expressed his opinion that to be prosperous Canada must adopt a “national policy” for the protection of home industries.
This became known as the “National Policy” and though immediate prosperity was the outcome, there is no doubt that the same policy has made possible the formation of trusts, which in this country go under the name of mergers.
In the second place, the Cabinet must be coherent and homogeneous, and its members must share the same ideals of national policy.
These departments have no direct concern with the determination of national policy.
The Belgian States, and more especially the Belgian aristocracy, succeeded in influencing the princes and their governors, who, from time to time, reverted to a national policy.
This ultimate result was not, however, apparent at once, and for some years the people entertained a hope of a return to the Burgundian tradition and to a national policy.
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