 | Education - 1895 - 664 pages
...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... | |
 | Arthur Glyn Leonard - Colonial administrators - 1896 - 366 pages
...in one of his speeches to the Houses of Congress, a thought that he borrowed from some old Roman, " To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace." A maxim that we, as a nation, would do well to act on, and in conformity with which I would like to... | |
 | Robert Pitcher Woodward - 1896 - 440 pages
...meal, and when questioned by the Doctor if it was a habit of his, he simply quoted: "Washington said, 'To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.' " In less than ten minutes the wisdom of his words was manifest to all. No war so deplorable as internal... | |
 | Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...interest, or some reward. o. GEORGE WASHINGTON — Letter to John Banister. Valley Forge. April 21, 1778. living heart and hearthstone all p. GEOBGE WASHINGTON — Speech to Both Houses of Congress. Jan. 8, 1790. Nothing except a battle lost... | |
 | Louis Klopsch - Quotations, English - 1896 - 382 pages
...profligate, than it found them. — COI/TON. War is a crime which involves all other crimes. — BROUGHAM. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace. — WASHINGTON. War is a terrible trade; but in the cause that is righteous sweet is the smell of powder.... | |
 | United States Naval Institute - Marine engineering - 1897 - 892 pages
...the seaboard of the Atlantic or the Pacific. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. GEORGE WASHINGTON. January 8, 1790. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace. ANNUAL ADDRESS. December 7, 1796. To secure respect to a neutral flag requires a naval force organized... | |
 | United States. President - Presidents - 1897 - 604 pages
...which 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... | |
 | Charles Bingham Reynolds - Library architecture - 1897 - 56 pages
...Washington's: " The aggregate happiness of society is, or ought to be, the end of all government." — " To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace." The genii supporting the seals are equipped with Army and Navy swords ; for the Army are the Roman... | |
 | United States. President, James Daniel Richardson - United States - 1897 - 652 pages
...which 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... | |
 | United States - 1897 - 836 pages
...occupation of territory or the bombardment of towns and cities. Hence, the injunction of Washington, that " to be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace," comes down to us with peculiar force and with a sacred significance. The great engines of war are now... | |
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To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace. 
