Are We Ready!Houghton Mifflin, 1915 - Počet stran: 227 |
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Strana xiv
... a relatively small portion of this continent , when transportation overseas was slow and danger- ous , and wars came slowly , when our possible enemies were unprepared to strike promptly and our people were xiv A LETTER.
... a relatively small portion of this continent , when transportation overseas was slow and danger- ous , and wars came slowly , when our possible enemies were unprepared to strike promptly and our people were xiv A LETTER.
Strana xvii
... possible , and so induce our young men to under- go it at such times as they can command a little freedom and can seek the physical development they need , for health's sake , if for nothing more . I know that your purpose in writing ...
... possible , and so induce our young men to under- go it at such times as they can command a little freedom and can seek the physical development they need , for health's sake , if for nothing more . I know that your purpose in writing ...
Strana 5
... trained force of 50,000 men within our borders ample at this time ? Is an invasion of the United States possible or feasible ? Could a foreign nation profit by it ? If so , how ? On the premise that we can be forced into a 5 GOLD AND IRON.
... trained force of 50,000 men within our borders ample at this time ? Is an invasion of the United States possible or feasible ? Could a foreign nation profit by it ? If so , how ? On the premise that we can be forced into a 5 GOLD AND IRON.
Strana 6
... possible to provide against such an emergency in the future with- out adopting some sort of system of militarism , hateful to us , contrary to our best traditions ? If so , how ? It all sounds a good deal like an examination paper ...
... possible to provide against such an emergency in the future with- out adopting some sort of system of militarism , hateful to us , contrary to our best traditions ? If so , how ? It all sounds a good deal like an examination paper ...
Strana 23
... possible in order to hold the bridges toward New York . A strong detachment has been sent out in the direction of Boston with the apparent object of interrupting railroad communication toward Boston . " - Philadelphia , March 23 — It is ...
... possible in order to hold the bridges toward New York . A strong detachment has been sent out in the direction of Boston with the apparent object of interrupting railroad communication toward Boston . " - Philadelphia , March 23 — It is ...
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Strana 85 - There are four things, which, I humbly conceive, are essential to the well-being, I may even venture to say, to the existence of the United States, as an independent power.
Strana 222 - I am very much interested in the successful working out of the idea of these college camps. I believe the students attending will derive not only a great deal of physical benefit from the healthful, open-air life, but also that they will benefit from the discipline, habits of regularity, and the knowledge of personal and camp sanitation which the experience in camp will give them. The camps will also tend to disseminate sound information concerning our military history and the present policy of the...
Strana 198 - Such a dearth of public spirit and such want of virtue, such stock-jobbing and fertility in all the low arts to obtain advantages of one kind or another in this great change of military arrangement I never saw before, and pray God's mercy that I may never be witness to again.
Strana 198 - ... such a dirty, mercenary spirit pervades the whole, that I should not be at all surprised at any disaster that may happen.
Strana 86 - Congress will recommend a proper peace establishment for the United States, in which a due attention will be paid to the importance of placing the militia of the Union upon a regular and respectable footing. If this should be the case, I would...
Strana 168 - More than this, proposed at this time, permit me to say, would mean merely that we had lost our self-possession, that we had been thrown off our balance by a war with which we have nothing to do, whose causes can not touch us, whose very existence affords us opportunities of friendship and disinterested service which should make us ashamed of any thought of hostility or fearful preparation for trouble.
Strana 86 - No one who has not learned it from experience, can conceive the difficulty, expense, and confusion which result from a contrary system, or the vague arrangements which have hitherto prevailed.
Strana 207 - We are now left with a good deal less than halfraised regiments, and about five thousand militia, who only stand engaged to the middle of this month, when, according to custom, they will depart, let the necessity of their stay be ever so urgent. Thus, for more than two months past, I have scarcely emerged from one difficulty before I have been plunged into another.
Strana 86 - The prevalence of that pacific and friendly disposition among the people of the United States, which will induce them to forget their local prejudices and policies ; to make those mutual concessions, which are requisite to the general prosperity ; and, in some instances, to sacrifice their individual advantages to the interest of the community.
Strana 192 - Convinced as I am, that a government is the murderer of its , citizens, which sends them to the field uninformed and untaught, where they are to meet men of the same age and strength, mechanized by education and discipline for battle...