America and the World War

The only effective friend of peace in a big city is the man who makes the police force thoroughly efficient, who tries to remove the causes of crime, but who unhesitatingly insists upon the punishment of criminals.

Efficiency is the watchword of Switzerland, and not least in its army.

The navy of the United States is the right arm of the United States and is emphatically the peacemaker.

The only insurance of our liberties as a people is full preparation for a defense adequate against any attack and made in time to fully meet any attack.

It has been said that the United States never learns by experience but only by disaster. Such method of education may at times prove costly.

The two nations that during the last fifty years have made by far the greatest progress are Germany and Japan; and they are the two nations in which preparedness for war in time of peace has been carried to the highest point of scientific development.

The debt we owe to German blood is great; the debt we owe to German thought and to German example, not only in governmental administration but in all the practical work of life, is even greater. Every generous heart and every far-seeing mind throughout the world should rejoice in the existence of a stable, united, and powerful Germany, too strong to fear aggression and too just to be a source of fear to its neighbors.

Disarmament of the free and liberty-loving nations would merely mean insuring the triumph of some barbarism or despotism, and if logically applied would mean the extinction of liberty and of all that makes civilization worth having throughout the world.

The sole value of the promise comes in the performance.

Peace treaties and arbitration treaties unbacked by force are not merely useless but mischievous in any serious crisis.