 | Robert Walsh - United States - 1837 - 504 pages
...: — "The institution of a military academy is also recommended by cogent reasons. However pacific the general policy of a nation may be, it ought never...it to greater evils when war could not be avoided." And the senate reply : " A military academy may be likewise rendered equally important. To aid and... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Butler - Military art and science - 1839 - 60 pages
...favour. "The institution of a military academy is also recommended by cogent reasons. However pacific the general policy of a nation may be, it ought never...its own choice. In proportion as the observance of pacific maxims might exempt a nation from the necessity of practising the rules of the military art,... | |
 | Roswell Park - West Point (N.Y.) - 1840 - 154 pages
...terms. " The institution of a military academy is also recommended by cogent reasons. However pacific the general policy of a nation may be, it ought never...of military knowledge for emergencies. The first, \vould impair the energy of its character; and both, would hazard its safety, or expose it to greater... | |
 | Joseph Coe - Presidents - 1841 - 416 pages
...country ? The institution of a military academy is also recommended by cogent reasons. However pacific the general policy of a nation may be, it ought never...often not depend upon its own choice. In proportion aa the observance of pacific maxims might exempt a nation from the necessity of practising the rules... | |
 | United States. President - Presidents - 1842 - 794 pages
...country? The institution of a military academy is also recommended by cogent reasons. However pacific the general policy of a nation may be, it ought never...its own choice. In proportion as the observance of pacific maxims might exempt a nation from the necessity of practising the rules of the military art,... | |
 | 1843 - 488 pages
...which can scarcely ever be attained by practice alone." And in his annual message of 1796, he says: "The institution of a military academy is also recommended...adequate stock of military knowledge for emergencies. Whatever argument may be drawn from particular examples, superficially viewed, a thorough examination... | |
 | United States. President - Presidents - 1846 - 766 pages
...country ? The institution of a military academy is also recommended by cogent reasons. However pacific the general policy of a nation may be, it ought never...its own choice. In proportion as the observance of pacific maxims might exempt a nation from the necessity of practising the rules of the military art,... | |
 | Joseph Gales - United States - 1849 - 760 pages
...country ? The institution of a Military Academy is also recommended by cogent reasons. However pacific the general policy of a nation may be, it ought never...its own choice. In proportion as the observance of pacific maxims might exempt a nation from the necessity of practising the roles of the military art,... | |
 | 1837 - 218 pages
...says : ' The institution of a military academy is also recommended by cogent reasons. However pacific the general policy of a nation may be, it ought never...adequate stock of military knowledge for emergencies. — Whatever argument may be drawn from particular examples, superficially viewed, a thorough examination... | |
 | United States. President - United States - 1854 - 616 pages
...auxiliaries. The institution of a military academy is also recommended by cogent reasons. However pacific the general policy of a nation may be, it ought never...or expose it to greater evils when war could not be avoided—besides, that war might often not depend upon its own choice. In proportion as the observance... | |
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The institution of a military academy is also recommended by cogent reasons. However pacific the general policy of a nation may be, it ought never to be without an adequate stock of military knowledge for emergencies. 
