 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...  Scribners Monthly - Page 2441872Full view - About this book
 | William Belsham - 1801 - 428 pages
...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...be known that we are at all times ready for war." These expressions, though they bore relation also to England and Spain, were understood to be pointed... | |
 | John Taylor - 1804 - 148 pages
...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...be known, that we are at all times ready for war." The means, by which these desirable ends are to be secured, are stated in the following words, which... | |
 | United States. President - 1805 - 276 pages
...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...be known, that we are at all times ready for war. The documents which will be presented to you, will shew the amount, and kinds of arms and military... | |
 | John Marshall - 1807 - 840 pages
...nations which will be withCHAP. vii held, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of 1793. weakness. If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel...peace... one of the most powerful instruments of our prosperity,... it must be known that we are, at all times, ready for war." These observations were... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1807 - 576 pages
...States among nations, which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness, llf we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel...peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our prosperity, it must be known that we are, at all times ready for war." -^ After advising the greatest... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1808 - 604 pages
...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...peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our prosperity, it must be known that we are at all times ready for war." After advising the greatest appropriations... | |
 | Isaac Maltby - 1811 - 540 pages
...^Washington. . 1! wi- desire to avoid insult, wt must be able to repel it. If we desire 10 secure peace, it must be known that we are at all times ready for war....Wcw/i/n#f<mr In conformity to the Act of the Conpres-of the United States, intitled, - An Act... | |
 | 1815 - 508 pages
...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 wedesire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments ofi par rising prosperity, it must be... | |
 | 1819 - 514 pages
...States among nations, which will be •withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakne'ss. If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel...must be known that we are at all times ready for war. The documents which will be presented to you, will show the amount, and kinds of arms and military... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1821 - 758 pages
...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...must be known that we are at all times ready for war. — The documents which will be presented to you, will shew the amounts and kinds of arms and military... | |
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