 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations - 1960 - 1750 pages
...world who are unable to protect themselves. George Washington told Congress in 1793 that, "There Is a rank due to the United States among nations, which...weakness — if we desire to avoid insult we must be ready to repel it ; if we desire to secure peace it must be known that •we are at all times ready... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations - Finance - 1964 - 1574 pages
...too, we follow the dictum of the Father of our Country. • • If we desire to secure peace * * * it must be known that we are at all times ready for war." DEVELOPMENT OF LONG ENDURANCE AIRCRAFT Mr. LIPSCOMB. Mr. Secretary, yesterday there was an interpretative... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations - 1959 - 1730 pages
...world who are unable to protect themselves. George Washington told Congress in 1793 that, "There U a rank due to the United States among nations, which will be withheld, it' not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness — if we desire to avoid insult we must be... | |
 | Aeronautics - 1960 - 848 pages
...date of the big B-70 cut-back 167 years later — made a profound and timeless statement. "There is a rank due to the United States among Nations, which will be withheld, i/ not absolutely los, by the reputation of weakness. I/ we desire to aroid insult, we must be able... | |
 | Industrial College of the Armed Forces (U.S.) - United States - 1965 - 360 pages
...military 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...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,... | |
 | Military art and science - 1952 - 1232 pages
...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 pages
...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 - English literature - 1908 - 674 pages
...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 pages
...distance 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...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... | |
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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... 
