Swords and Ploughshares: Or, The Supplanting of the System of War by the System of LawLondon, 1912 - 249 pages |
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... cost can only be compared with the cost of the preventives of fire , not with the 23 -NATIONAL DANGERS AND NATIONAL DEFENCE.
... cost can only be compared with the cost of the preventives of fire , not with the 23 -NATIONAL DANGERS AND NATIONAL DEFENCE.
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... cost of the preventives of fire , not with the loss by fire . If they can command more power of logic than the Admiral's , there would be nothing more profitable for Americans than to consider carefully their dangers in connection with ...
... cost of the preventives of fire , not with the loss by fire . If they can command more power of logic than the Admiral's , there would be nothing more profitable for Americans than to consider carefully their dangers in connection with ...
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... cost and how hard it is to recover from that expense ? We know it , if you don't . It is a bitter business lesson , and for some time to come Japan is going to spend her best energies not in arranging for new and more expensive wars ...
... cost and how hard it is to recover from that expense ? We know it , if you don't . It is a bitter business lesson , and for some time to come Japan is going to spend her best energies not in arranging for new and more expensive wars ...
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... cost us over half a billion dollars to conquer the natives and to hold them , that any nation could for twice that sum wrest them from us or , even if so , make a profit where we have lost so much ? 99 It has been frequently said that ...
... cost us over half a billion dollars to conquer the natives and to hold them , that any nation could for twice that sum wrest them from us or , even if so , make a profit where we have lost so much ? 99 It has been frequently said that ...
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... cost of the navy relative to the wealth it protects is even more mis- leading . Taking the valuation of the total wealth of the country , he shows an average annual ex- penditure of only $ .0012 on the dollar for the support of the navy ...
... cost of the navy relative to the wealth it protects is even more mis- leading . Taking the valuation of the total wealth of the country , he shows an average annual ex- penditure of only $ .0012 on the dollar for the support of the navy ...
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Page 113 - And all merchant and trading vessels employed in exchanging the products of different places, and thereby rendering the necessaries, conveniences and comforts of human life more easy to be obtained, and...
Page 237 - The preservation of peace has been put forward as the object of international policy; it is in its name that great States have concluded between themselves powerful alliances; it is the better to guarantee peace that they have developed in proportions hitherto unprecedented their military forces, and still continue to increase them without shrinking from any sacrifice. " All these efforts nevertheless have not yet been able to bring about the beneficent results of the desired pacification. The financial...
Page 238 - The economic crises, due in great part to the system of armaments a entrance, and the continual danger which lies in this massing of war material, are transforming the armed peace of our days into a crushing burden, which the peoples have more and more difficulty in bearing.
Page 76 - That a commission of five members be appointed by the President of the United States, to consider the expediency of utilizing existing international agencies for the purpose of limiting the armaments of the nations of the world by international agreement, and by constituting the combined navies of the world an international force for the preservation of universal peace...
Page 237 - Government thinks that the present moment would be very favorable for seeking, by means of international discussion, the most effectual means of insuring to all peoples the benefits of a real and durable peace, and, above all, of putting an end to the progressive development of the present armaments.
Page 237 - The intellectual and physical strength of the nations, labor and capital, are for the major part diverted from their natural application, and unproductively consumed. Hundreds of millions are devoted to acquiring terrible engines of destruction, which, though today regarded as the last word of science, are destined tomorrow to lose all value, in consequence of some fresh discovery in the same field.
Page 77 - For myself, I was bitterly opposed to the measure, and to this day regard the war, which resulted, as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation.
Page 183 - WAR I abhor, And yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife; and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul.
Page 238 - I'outrance, and the continual danger which lies in this massing of war material, are transforming the armed peace of our days into a crushing burden, which the peoples have more and more difficulty in bearing. It appears evident, then, that if this state of things were prolonged, it would inevitably lead to the very cataclysm which it is desired to avert, and the horrors of which make every thinking man shudder in advance.
Page 115 - The Contracting Powers agree to prohibit, for a period extending to the close of the Third Peace Conference, the discharge of projectiles and explosives from balloons or by other new methods of a similar nature.