 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
 | Industrial College of the Armed Forces (U.S.) - 1965 - 360 páginas
...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 páginas
...time, will publish other articles 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 - 1908 - 674 páginas
...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 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... | |
 | Ohio State University. Alumni Association - 1915 - 550 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... | |
 | Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - 1918 - 462 páginas
...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 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... | |
 | William Safire, Leonard Safir - 1990 - 436 páginas
...(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... | |
 | Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 páginas
...found on a typed line of quotations by Admiral Nimitz received from the Navy Department Library. 410 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... | |
 | Charles W. Freeman, Jr. - 1995 - 616 páginas
...ever gained anything valuable by being unprepared to defend itself." HL Mencken, 1926 325 Readiness: "If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to...be known that we are at all times ready for war." George Washington Reassignment: See "Postings" Recall, letters of: The official document, presented... | |
 | David P. Currie - 1997 - 356 páginas
...to stay out of trouble might not succeed, and in any event, "[i]f we desire to avoid insult, we must repel it; if we desire to secure peace, ... it must be known that we are at all times ready for war."64 Congress took its time in responding, but ultimately it enacted a package of defense measures... | |
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