 | United States. President - 1897 - 604 頁
...experience that the most sincere neutrality is not a sufficient guard againstthe depredations of nationsjat war. To secure respect to a neutral flag requires...ready to vindicate it from insult or aggression. This I may even prevent the necessity of going to war by discouraging bellig- ' erent powers from committing... | |
 | 1897 - 804 頁
...negligence in not maintaining fleets, if only neutrality were contemplated. He quotes Washington's words: "To secure respect to a neutral flag requires a naval...to vindicate it from insult or aggression. This may prevent even the necessity of going to war." Mr. HW Wilson, writing on "The Downfall of Greece," taunt*... | |
 | United States Naval Institute - 1897 - 892 頁
...the present needs of the country," nor to rely upon " our great contingent power." Washington said, " To secure respect to a neutral flag requires a naval...ready to vindicate it from insult or aggression." PROFESSIONAL NOTES. COMPRESSED AIR SYSTEM ON THE US MONITOR TERROR. The use of compressed air as a... | |
 | George Sydenham Clarke Baron Sydenham of Combe, James Richard Thursfield - 1897 - 414 頁
...avowed intention of evading consequences? " To secure respect to a neutral flag," wrote Washington.t " requires a naval force organized and ready to vindicate it from insult or aggression," and the bitter experience of the United States amply bore out the truth of his words. Australasia to-day,... | |
 | Thomas Lansing Masson - 1898 - 132 頁
...consider that three years before George Washington himself, in a speech before Congress, said that " to secure respect to a neutral flag requires a naval...force organized and ready to vindicate it from insult and aggression." Bainbridge did as he was told. He hoisted the Algerian flag until he got beyond gunshot,... | |
 | Ira Nelson Hollis - 1900 - 348 頁
...at the end of 1796. " It is in our own experience that the most sincere neutrality is not sufficient guard against the depredations of nations at war....flag requires a naval force organized and ready to protect it from insult or aggression." Naturally enough, it was the neutrality question and not the... | |
 | Edgar Stanton Maclay - 1902 - 716 頁
...DecemCUBA ^s %„ ^ — v NZANlLLO, °0 Dg cvo^ 8ANTiAOO 0£ CUPA,* i' i _>-j-— 'lr^ ber 7, 1796: "To secure respect to a neutral flag requires a naval...ready to vindicate it from insult or aggression." Here was a case of both "insult" and "aggression," and in point of fact the United States was powerless... | |
 | Winthrop Lippit Marvin - 1902 - 490 頁
..."to an active, external commerce the protection of a naval force is indispensable," and again that "to secure respect to a neutral flag requires a naval...ready to vindicate it from insult or aggression." Congress had already authorized the building of six frigates, three of forty-four and three of thirty-six... | |
 | John Frederick Schroeder - 1903 - 574 頁
...but, besides this, it is in our own experience that the most sincere neutrality is not a sufficient guard against the depredations of nations at war. To secure respect to a neutral flag requires n naval force, organized and ready to vindicate it from insult or aggression ; this may even prevent... | |
 | 1904 - 528 頁
...another time he said : " To an active external commerce the protection of a naval force is indispensable. To secure respect to a neutral flag requires a naval...ready to vindicate it from insult or aggression." To acknowledge the existence of an evil is not to support or approve it, but the facts must be faced.... | |
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But besides this, it is in our own experience, that the most sincere neutrality is not a sufficient guard against the depredations of nations at war. To secure respect to a neutral flag, requires a naval force, organized and ready to vindicate it from... 
