 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...  The Great Problems of British Statesmanship - Página 390por J. Ellis Barker - 1917 - 445 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | John Church Hamilton - 1864 - 630 páginas
...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 of our rising prosperity, it must be known that we are at all... | |
 | Henry Lee - 1864 - 150 páginas
...most effectual means of preserving peace." Again in 1793 he says : — 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 of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - 1864 - 632 páginas
...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 of our rising prosperity, it must be known that we are at all... | |
 | United States. Post Office Dept - 1864 - 234 páginas
...and from the lakes to the Hudson and the Atlantic. It was well said by Washington, "that if we desire peace, it must be known that we are at all times ready for war." The military position is, in a few words, this : On the American side, the northern frontier is defenceless.... | |
 | 1872 - 818 páginas
...keep at a distance those painful appeals to arms, with which the history of every nation abounds. ... 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 of our rising prosperity, it must be known that we are, at all... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1873 - 550 páginas
...will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness. If we desire to avoid msult, we must be able to repel it ; if we desire to secure peace — one of the most powerful instruments of our prosperity — it must be known that we are, at all... | |
 | Iowa. General Assembly - 1874 - 1166 páginas
...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 of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all... | |
 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology - 1875 - 1736 páginas
...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 of our rising prosperity, it must be known that we are at all... | |
 | Nahum Capen - 1875 - 720 páginas
...be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness. If we desire to avoid iиsult, we must be able to repel it ; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1877 - 660 páginas
...of the Old World caused Washington, in his annual message to Congress in December, 1793, to say: " 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 of our prosperity, it must be known that we are at all times ready... | |
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