| John Bartlett - Quotations - 1868 - 828 pages
...Chambers's Cyc. of Literature, Vol. \\.p. 10. 374 Dickinson. — Adams. GEORGE WASHINGTON. 1732-1799. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.1 Speech to both Houses of Congress, January 8, I79<x JOHN DICKINSON. 1732-1808. Then join in... | |
| 1899 - 998 pages
...will engage your attention, that of providing for the common defense will merit particular regard. 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 well-digested... | |
| Literature - 1872 - 818 pages
...limited Voi. IV.— 17 SURVEY OF GOVERNMENT LANDS AT WEST POINT IN 1839. sense of its utterance. " To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving the peace The United States ought not to indulge a persuasion that, contrary to the order of human... | |
| Benson John Lossing - United States - 1872 - 638 pages
...Washington remarked in his message, in which he recommended the establishment of a Military Academy; "To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace." (2.) John Dickenson in one of his " Letters of a Pennsylvania Farmer to the Inhabitants of the British... | |
| Literature - 1894 - 1228 pages
...surround us, facilitating this to a degree but very little appreciated. The trite truism of Washington — "to be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace" — that has been so often repeated, applies now with added force. The fact that we are prepared to... | |
| Iowa. General Assembly - Iowa - 1874 - 1166 pages
...will engage your attention, that of providing for the common defense will merit particular regard. To be prepared for war, is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace." Again in 1793, he said: — "I cannot recommend to your notice measures for the fulfillment of our... | |
| John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...Chambers's Cyc. of Literature, Vol. ii. /. 10. •374 Dichinson. — Adams. GEORGE WASHINGTON. 1732-1799. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.1 Speech to both Houses of Congress, January 8, 1790. JOHN DICKINSON. 1732-1808. Then join in... | |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology - 1875 - 1736 pages
...will engage your attention, that of providing for the common defense will merit particular regard. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace. "A free people ought not only to be aroused, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well digested... | |
| John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...Sarah Tytler, to Jean Adam, 1710-1765. Washington. — Jefferson. 405 GEORGE WASHINGTON. 1732-1799. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.1 Speech to both Houses of Congress, January 8, 1 790. THOMAS JEFFERSON. 1743-1826. The God who... | |
| G.W. Carleton & Co - Quotations, English - 1878 - 360 pages
...specious name, WAK'S glorious art, and gives immortal fame. YOUNG, Love of .Fame, satire vii. line 55. — To be prepared for WAR is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace. — WASHINGTON, Speech to both Houses of Congress, January 8, 1790. — WAK even to the knife. [This... | |
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