...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 practicing the rules of the military art...

...said: "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...war could not be avoided. Besides that, war might not often depend upon its own choice. In proportion as the observance of pacific maxims might exempt...

...without a solid, permanent army, for, as he said, in a speech to Congress in 1796: "However pacific the general policy of a nation may be, it ought never...adequate stock of military knowledge for emergencies * * * war might often depend not upon its own choice." There is scarcely, however, a question that...

...he said : " The institution of a military academy is recommended by cogent reasons. However pacific the general policy of a nation may be, it ought never...adequate stock of military knowledge for emergencies. In proportion as the observance from the necessity of practicing the rules of the military art, ought...

...was in accord with the recommendation of Washington which has already been cited. "However pacific the general policy of a nation may be, it ought never...adequate stock of military knowledge for emergencies." Congress recognized the national want by the creation of West Point. Virginia met the needs of her...

...without a solid, permanent army, for, as he said, in a speech to Congress in 1796: "However pacific the general policy of a nation may be, it ought never...adequate stock of military knowledge for emergencies . . . war might often depend not upon its own choice." Of this we are only too well aware. There is...

...Institution of a military academy, and adds : "However pacific the general policy of a nation may t>e. It ought never to be without an adequate stock of military knowledge for emergencies. The art of war la at once comprehensive and complicated, It demands much previous study, and the possession...

...one, and the action it took was in line with these words of our first president : "However pacific the general policy of a nation may be, it ought never...stock of military knowledge for emergencies." The school these men were to establish was to have military features, and yet it could not strictly be...

...much previous study," and he advocated preparedness by recommending to Congress that "however pacific the general policy of a nation may be, it ought never...stock of military knowledge for emergencies." The Military Academy at West Point was definitely opened on July 4, 1802, by President Jefferson with ten...

...United States to look to the means and to set about the gradual creation of a Navy. However pacific the general policy of a nation may be, it ought never...adequate stock of military knowledge for emergencies. This lack would impair the energy^ of its character and hazard its safety or expose it to greater evils...