 There is a rank due to the United States among nations, which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness. If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it ; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments...  Scribners Monthly - Page 2441872Full view - About this book
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations - 1959 - 1730 pages
...weakness — if we desire to avoid insult we must be ready to repel it ; if we desire to secure peace it must be known that we are at all times ready for war." SUMMARY is of prime importance in this time period in order to counter the improved quality of potential... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations - 1960 - 1750 pages
...weakness — if we desire to avoid insult we must be ready to repel it ; if we desire to secure peace it must be known that •we are at all times ready for war." SUMMARY The aircraft, missile, and related programs have been carefully reviewed in order to attain... | |
 | Industrial College of the Armed Forces (U.S.) - United States - 1965 - 360 pages
...avoid insult we must be ready to repel it; if we desire peace, one of the most powerful institutions of our rising prosperity, it must be known that we are at all times ready for war." 10 Little heed was paid to Washington's warning, but the costly lessons of two world wars and the awesome... | |
 | 876 pages
...which show the trend of civilian thinking. GEORGE WASHINGTON'S dictum "If we desire to secure peace ... it must be known that we are at all times ready for war" was never more valid than in 1947, when, as seldom in history, the world's military strength was divided... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1908 - 674 pages
...peace on only one condition, and that is, on condition of building and maintaining a first-class navy. If we desire to avoid insult we must be able to repel...be known that we are at all times ready for war.' These words may be commended to the visionaries marshalled under the banners of the various peace societies... | |
 | Ohio State University. Alumni Association - 1915 - 550 pages
...States among nations which will be withheld; if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness. "If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to...be known that we are at all times ready for war." And in his eighth address to Congress, December 7, 1796, he said: "It is our own experience that the... | |
 | Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - Washington (D.C.) - 1918 - 462 pages
...when he announced that celebrated doctrine : "There is a rank due the United States among Nations. If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel...peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our prosperity, it must be known that we are at all times ready for war. ' ' It is because we have not... | |
 | William Safire, Leonard Safir - Education - 1990 - 436 pages
...(Military) Preparedness (Military) Let him who desires peace prepare for war. — Flavius Vegetius Renatus If we desire to avoid insult we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known that we are at all times ready for... | |
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