'•THERE ]S A RANK DUE TO THE
UNITED STATES WHICH WILL EE
Wri'HHELD, IF NOT ABSOLUTELY
LQ3T, BY THE REPUTATION OF
WEAKI€:SSj IF WE DESIRE TO
SECURE PEACE...IT I4UST BE
KNOWN THAT WE ARE AT ALL TDIES
READY FOR WAR.”
George Washington,
Fifth Annual Address to Congress,
Philadelphis, Par, Dac. 3^ ■1-793
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Edition ij.
Volume 23
February 22, 1962
"WHAT CONSTITUTES THE BULWAim OF
OUR OWN LIEiHTY AND INDEPEI'IDEM'T:?
IT IS NOT OUR PROVJNIi'Ij lATTLEMEiJTS,
OUR BRISTLING SFiv COAuTS... .OUR
RELIANCE IS IN Tiffi I^. OF LIH^tTY
;aiCH GOD HAS PL/iNTED H US. OUR
DEEB^SE IS BI THE PRESERVATION OF
THE SPIRIT ^JHICK PRIZES LIBERTY AS
TIE HI'aiTAGE OF ALL MEI'^, IN iiLL LANDS
EVEitYV’JHERS." .
Abranam L:uiccjn,
Speech at Edv/ardsville, 111., Sept. 11