 | J. F. C. Fuller - 2007 - 436 páginas
...appeals to arms, with which the history of every other nation abounds. There is a rank due to these United States among nations, which will be withheld,...known, that we are at all times ready for war. The wisdom of these words must be apparent to every thinking American. Yet, strange to say, as late as... | |
 | John Tomlinson - 2007 - 192 páginas
...attributed to Flavius Vegetius Renatus (c. 390 AD). A very similar quotation comes from George Washington, 'If we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful...be known that we are at all times ready for war'. This adds the significant equation between the defence of peace and the defence of wealth (what today... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services - 2008 - 1156 páginas
...desire to avoid insult,' he noted, "we must be able to repel it. If we desire to secure the peace, it must be known that we are at all times ready for war." Your Navy today, sir, is still ready to help secure peace and ready at all times to both deter war... | |
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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... 
