 | Benson John Lossing - 1881 - 830 էջ
...December, 1793, Washington said in reference to a navy, " If we desire to avoid insult, we must bo 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 for war." Acting upon this hint, Congress,... | |
 | Industrial College of the Armed Forces (U.S.) - 1965 - 360 էջ
...attack on the United States. In his message to Congress on December 3, 1793, he said: "There is a rank due to the United States among nations, which will...weakness. If we desire to avoid insult we must be ready to repel it; if we desire peace, one of the most powerful institutions of our rising prosperity,... | |
 | 1952 - 1232 էջ
...role of the armed forces in diplomacy is exemplified in the following quotations: There is a rank due the United States among nations, which will be withheld if not absolutely Iof-t. by the reputation for weakness. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of... | |
 | 876 էջ
...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 էջ
...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 էջ
...those painful appeals to arms with which the history of every other nation abounds. There is a rank due to the United States among nations which will...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 էջ
...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... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs - 1983 - 438 էջ
...Country, George Washington, expressed the same maxim in these words: "If we desire to secure peace ... it must be known that we are at all times ready for war." National security requires informing our adversary publicly in advance what weapons we have and what... | |
 | William Safire, Leonard Safir - 1990 - 436 էջ
...(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... | |
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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 times ready for war. 
