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The command is forward : selections from addresses on the motion picture industry in war and peace (1944)

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Title:
The command is forward : selections from addresses on the motion picture industry in war and peace
Date:
1944
Publisher:
New York : Richard R. Smith
Volume:
The command is forward : selections from addresses on the motion picture industry in war and peace
Leaf #:
00028
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
May 01, 2025
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l6 THE COMMAND IS FORWARD shall use in listing quickly some of the basic concepts upon which we Americans are united. I concur with Mr. Luce in the conviction that any peace treaty which our Senate is to ratify must not do violence to these principles. The first is the doctrine of a fundamental moral law. Your other honor guest of the evening, Mr. Abram Myers, one of my colleagues of the legal fraternity, will remember the frequency with which Chief Justice John Marshall, Justice Story, and their associates referred to "the laws of nature and of nature's God." This favorite phrase of the eighteenth century philosophers is still reflected in the belief of the average American as to the eternal character of right and wrong. Said Chief Justice Marshall in one of his great opinions: There are principles of abstract justice which the Creator of all things has impressed on the mind of his creature man, and which are admitted to regulate, in a great degree, the rights of civilized nations. To Marshall's statement, Justice Joseph Story added: Among the great principles upon which all society rests ... are some which are of eternal obligation, and arise from our common dependence upon our Creator. Among these are the duty to do justice, to love mercy and to walk humbly before God. Although we live today in a period when "relativity" has a great following, I sincerely believe that the rank and file of our citizens still adhere to a few great absolutes