 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services - 1969
...insult we must be ready to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful institutions of our rising prosperity, it must be known that we are at all times ready for war." On March 27, 1969, President Nixon announced the appointment of a Commission on an All-Volunteer Armed... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1932 - 198 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." MILITARY ACADEMY (1796) Military preparation included the intensive training of officers for the small... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1934 - 64 strani
...be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness. If we desire to avoid onslaught we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure...must be known that we are at all times ready for war. This demonstrates very clearly how inapplicable to the conditions of our own day are these and similar... | |
 | 1915
...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 almost the last message he ever sent to Congress, he used these words, and how apt they are : The... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means - 1945
...Allies, and without doubt have had much to do with the defeat of our enemies. George Washington said : 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. That is the price of peace. Protection of... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services - 1948 - 1122 strani
...insult we must be ready to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful institutions of our rising prosperity, it must be known that we are at all times ready for war." GC MARSHALL, Chief of Staff. WASHINGTON, DC, September 1, 1945. Mr. THATCHER. So it is not an afterthought,... | |
 | 1925
...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." As to carrying out the ' ' common defense" provision of our Constitution, General Pershing recently... | |
 | James McKeen Cattell - 1916
...be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness. If we desire to avoid insult wo must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace,...must be known that we are at all times ready for war. Another patriot, Charles Pinckney, voiced the same spirit of defense when he said : Millions for defense... | |
 | Industrial College of the Armed Forces (U.S.) - 1965
...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... | |
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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... 
