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- Historic Document · May 29, 20121960 Republican Platform
space and Antarctica—to make known to men everywhere our desire to advance the cause of peace. We mean, as a Party, to continue in the same course. We recognize … science and technology, earthbound as well as spacial, to assure a citadel of liberty from which the fruits of freedom may be carried to all people. Our continuing and great
- Historic Document · May 29, 20121956 Republican Platform
foreign policies which have enabled our people to enjoy in peace the blessings of liberty. We shall continue to work unceasingly for a just and enduring peace in a world … Every honorable means at our command has been exercised to alleviate the grievances and causes of armed conflict among nations. The advance of Communism and its enslavement of people
- Historic Document · May 29, 20121952 Republican Platform
happily forward to the genuine independence of those captive peoples. We shall again make liberty into a beacon light of hope that will penetrate the dark places. That program will … benefits for which the worker has paid is to stop the inflation which causes the tragic loss of purchasing power, and that we propose to do. We favor amendment
- Historic Document · May 29, 20121948 Republican Platform
strengthening the United Nations and primary recognition of America’s self-interest in the liberty of other peoples. Prudently conserving our own resources, we shall cooperate on a self-help … inflation, but has deliberately encouraged higher prices. We pledge an attack upon the basic causes of inflation, including the following measures: progressive reduction of the cost of government through elimination
- Historic Document · May 29, 20121944 Republican Platform
self-government; and the organized cooperation of the nations should concern itself with basic causes of world disorder. It should promote a world opinion to influence the nations to right … have a special right to speak with authority in behalf of the security and liberty for which they fight. We shall sustain the Constitution of the United States
- Historic Document · May 29, 20121940 Republican Platform
entire defensive policy is determination to preserve not our material interests merely, but those liberties which are the priceless heritage of America. Re-Employment The New Deal’s failure … promise adequate assistance to rural communities suffering disasters from flood, drought, and other natural causes. We shall promote stabilization of agricultural income through intelligent management of accumulated surpluses, and through
- Historic Document · May 29, 20121936 Republican Platform
intolerable. It menaces and, if continued, will utterly destroy constitutional government and the liberty of the citizen. We favor the vigorous enforcement of the criminal laws, as well … means of securing and maintaining peace by the pacific settlement of disputes, the great cause of international arbitration through the establishment of free, independent tribunals, which shall determine such disputes
- Historic Document · May 29, 20121932 Republican Platform
continue to exert our full influence upon the nations of the world in the cause of reduction of arms, we do not propose to reduce our navy defenses below that … rights of the Negro citizen to enjoy the full benefits of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is traditional in the Republican Party, and our party stands pledged
- Historic Document · May 29, 20121928 Republican Platform
have been retired or refunded into securities bearing a low rate of interest, while Liberty Bonds, which were selling below par, now command a premium. These operations have resulted … misunderstanding. The object and the aim of the United States is to further the cause of peace, of strict justice between nations with due regard for the rights of others
- Historic Document · May 29, 20121920 Republican Platform
cost, a serious loss to the millions of people who, in good faith, bought liberty bonds and victory notes at par, and extensive post war speculation followed … independence of domination by financial combinations. The High Cost of Living The prime cause of the “High Cost of Living” has been first and foremost, a fifty per cent depreciation
- Historic Document · May 29, 20121916 Republican Platform
Mexico, wherever they may be found, adequate and absolute protection in their lives, liberty, and property. Monroe Doctrine We reaffirm our approval of the Monroe Doctrine, and declare its maintenance … opportunity which the great war has given them of forcing disarmament and furthering the cause of industrial freedom. An armed force in the hands of the ruling class serves
- Historic Document · May 29, 20121912 Republican Platform
allegiance to the principles of the Republican party and our devotion to the cause of Republican institutions established by the fathers. It is appropriate that we should now recall with … orderly and effective expression of the popular will, for the protection of civil liberty and the rights of man, and for the interpretation of the law by an untrammelled
- Historic Document · May 29, 20121908 Republican Platform
July 16, 1908 Once more the Republican Party, in National Convention assembled, submits its cause to the people. This great historic organization, that destroyed slavery, preserved the Union, restored credit … defence of every wholesome safeguard which has made more secure the guarantees of life, liberty and property. These are the achievements that will make for Theodore Roosevelt his place
- Historic Document · May 29, 20121904 Republican Platform
administration, and have conferred upon the people of those islands the largest civil liberty they have ever enjoyed. By our possession of the Philippines we were enabled to take prompt … President Roosevelt that the Monroe doctrine was signally vindicated, and the cause of peace and arbitration greatly advanced. His prompt and vigorous action in Panama, which we commend
- Historic Document · May 29, 20121896 Republican Platform
carrying of our foreign commerce. The Republican party is unreservedly for sound money. It caused the enactment of a law providing for the redemption [resumption] of specie payments … best hopes go out for the full success of their determined contest for liberty. The government of Spain, having lost control of Cuba, and being unable to protect the property
- Historic Document · May 29, 20121892 Republican Platform
dignity of manhood, irrespective of faith, color, or nationality; it sympathizes with the cause of home rule in Ireland, and protests against the persecution of the Jews in Russia … maintenance of freedom among men. We therefore declare anew our devotion to liberty of thought and conscience, of speech and press, and approve all agencies and instrumentalities which contribute
- Historic Document · May 29, 20121888 Republican Platform
autonomy reserved to the States under the Constitution; to the personal rights and liberties of citizens in all the States and Territories of the Union, and especially to the supreme … continue to adhere to the Democratic party have deserted not only the cause of honest government, of sound finance, of freedom and purity of the ballot, but especially have deserted
- Historic Document · May 29, 20121876 Republican Platform
they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that for the attainrnent of these ends governments have been … constitutional powers for removing any just causes of discontent on the part of any class, and securing to every American citizen complete liberty and exact equality in the exercise
- Historic Document · May 29, 20121872 Republican Platform
nations, protecting its citizens everywhere, and sympathizing with all people who strive for greater liberty. Fifth. Any system of the civil service under which the subordinate positions of the government … line of duty, became disabled, without regard to the length of service or the cause of such discharge. Ninth. The doctrine of Great Britain and other European powers concerning allegiance
- Historic Document · May 29, 20121868 Republican Platform
Presidency, who has acted treacherously to the people who elected him and the cause he was pledged to support; has usurped high legislative and judicial functions; has refused to execute … laws; has employed his executive powers to render insecure the property, the peace, the liberty, and life of the citizen; has abused the pardoning power; has denounced the National Legislature