 | Industrial College of the Armed Forces (U.S.) - 1965 - 360 strani
...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... | |
 | 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 strani
...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 strani
...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 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.) - 1918 - 462 strani
...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 - 1990 - 436 strani
...(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... | |
 | Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 strani
...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...be known, that we are at all times ready for War. President GEORGE WASHINGTON, fifth annual address to Congress, December 13, 1793.—77U! Writings of... | |
 | Charles W. Freeman, Jr. - 1995 - 616 strani
...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 repel it. If we desire to secure peace, it must be known that we are at all times ready for war." George Washington Reassignment: See "Postings"... | |
 | S. W. Pope - 1997 - 235 strani
...Washington stated at America's inception, "which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness. If we desire to avoid insult, we must...it must be known that we are at all times ready for war."33 Placing Washington's call for a ready nation within a historical context that stretched back... | |
 | Frank P. King - 1997 - 260 strani
...all, the riddle of US defense policy. In his fifth annual message to Congress, he put it eloquently: "If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to...it must be known that we are at all times ready for war."31 George Washington is the perfect example, the finest possible model, of a leader who used power... | |
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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... 
