| George McGovern - Political Science - 2004 - 192 pages
...the presidency. In his final address as president, George Washington said: "Those who love America will avoid the necessity of those overgrown military...regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." President Eisenhower gained the respect of the world for his leadership in World War II—including... | |
| Patrick F. McManus - Humor - 2010 - 240 pages
...Washington's Farewell Address now reads more like a diagnosis than a warning: he counseled Americans to "avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments,...regarded as particularly hostile to Republican Liberty." When, in Rome, the US representative expressed fears of "politically motivated charges" against Americans,... | |
| Beverly Merrill Kelley - History - 2004 - 350 pages
...George Washington warned: "they will avoid the necessity of those overgrown Military establishment which, under any form of government, are inauspicious...regarded as particularly hostile to Republican Liberty." 53 Dwight D. Eisenhower echoed his predecessor's sentiments 171 years later, adding a wrinkle of his... | |
| Thomas L. Krannawitter, Daniel C. Palm - History - 2005 - 270 pages
...opposite foreign alliances, attachments, and intrigues would stimulate and embitter. Hence, likewise, they will avoid the necessity of those overgrown Military...as particularly hostile to Republican Liberty: In this sense it is, that your Union ought to be considered as a main prop of your liberty, and that the... | |
| Andrew J. Bacevich - Political Science - 2005 - 288 pages
...his withdrawal from public life, George Washington pointedly advised his fellow citizens to be wary of "those overgrown military establishments which,...be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty."35 Himself a soldier of surpassing greatness, Washington was hardly a naif in matters related... | |
| Paul J. Bolt, Damon V. Coletta, Collins G. Shackelford, Jr. - Performing Arts - 2005 - 502 pages
...observe, however, Washington's balance, for the Address also reiterates his maxim that America must avoid "those overgrown Military establishments, which under...regarded as particularly hostile to Republican Liberty" (W, 966). He thus calls America to "[o]bserve good faith and justice towds. all Nations. Cultivate... | |
| Paul J. Bolt, Damon V. Coletta, Collins G. Shackelford - Political Science - 2005 - 506 pages
...reiterates his maxim that America must avoid "those overgrown Military establishments, which under any fonn of Government are inauspicious to liberty, and which...regarded as particularly hostile to Republican Liberty" (V^ 966). He thus calls America to "[o]bserve good faith and justice towds. all Nations. Cultivate... | |
| Gary Rosen - Political Science - 2005 - 268 pages
...nation in 1796, George Washington, himself the country's greatest soldier, urged future generations to "avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments,...any form of government are inauspicious to liberty." His advice was followed. For nearly two centuries, the country never maintained a large peacetime army.... | |
| Michael Lind - History - 2006 - 304 pages
...maintaining a federal union that allowed them to pool their defense costs, the individual states of the Union "will avoid the necessity of those overgrown military...as particularly hostile to republican liberty. In this sense it is that your union ought to be considered as a main prop of your liberty, and that the... | |
| Max Linn - 2006 - 131 pages
...interventionist foreign policy to which both parties now adhere. Consider Washington's words on foreign policy: "Avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments...regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." This is no granola-crunching pacifist talking, but rather our first commander-in-chief, the dauntless... | |
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