 | 1893 - 640 páginas
...soldiers of our country have been | in its favor. Washington, in .his speech to Congress in 1790, said : " To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace ; " and again, in 1793 : "If we desire to avoid insult ; if we desire to secure peace, it must be known... | |
 | 1893 - 492 páginas
...battle was operated by the Spanish in the Don Carlos civil war of 1830. It was Washington who said that to be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace. Hetman was a title formerly borne by a general of Cossack troops; it was au elective rank, but gave... | |
 | 1893 - 416 páginas
...the policy of disarmament. I remember indeed that George Washington declared before Congress that " to be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace." Allow me, however, to submit, as I do most humbly, whether, in this late age of Christendom, the converse... | |
 | George Washington - 1894 - 510 páginas
...a righteous Providence, and Oi» approbation, of all good men. EC M'GuiBE, DD MEASURES FOR DEFENCE. To be prepared for war, is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace. NATIONAL MILITARY DISCIPLINE. HOME MILITARY SUPPLIES. Our safety and our interest require, that we... | |
 | Arthur Glyn Leonard - 1894 - 360 páginas
...recognise in theory the truism of that ancient precept, quoted in more recent times by Washington, that * to be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace,' and although we acknowledge the soundness of its principles, British-like we never act up to it. I... | |
 | 1898 - 956 páginas
...sense entirely clear to him. Beware of using words that a younger person than you would not understand. "To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace." "Sin has many tools, but a lie is a handle that fits them all." ' ' The axis of the earth sticks out... | |
 | 1898 - 670 páginas
...sense entirely clear to him. Beware of using words that a younger person than you would not understand. "To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace." " Sin has many tools, but a lie is a handle that fits them all." "The axis of the earth sticks out... | |
 | Elizabeth Bryant Johnston - 1895 - 268 páginas
...escorted to the senate-chamber, where both houses were assembled. He urged Congress to remember, " That to be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace." He also congratulated the country upon the recent accession to the Union of the important State of... | |
 | Sheldon and Company - 1895 - 384 páginas
...phrase. To bear is to conquer our fate. — CAMPBELL. To be simple is to be great. — • EMERSON. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace. — WASHINGTON. 4. A participle or a participial phrase. Plain living and high thinking are no more.... | |
 | 1895 - 664 páginas
...life and character, we made as much a study as we could. We copied these with others of his words: "To be prepared for war, is one of the most effectual means of serving peace." His last words — " I die hard, but I am not afraid to go." It is in Henry Lee's grand... | |
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To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace. A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined ; to which end, a uniform and... 
