"We must train and classify the whole..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson
We must train and classify the whole of our male citizens, and make military instruction a regular part of collegiate education.
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“Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.”
“My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.”
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“If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother tongue, linguistic starvation will abide.”
“I do not believe that any man can adequately appreciate the world of to-day unless he has some knowledge of -- a little more than a slight knowledge, some feeling for and of -- the history of the world of the past.”
“In our democracy every young person should have an equal opportunity to obtain a higher education, regardless of his station in life or financial means.”
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“We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.”
“For every advance that the Japanese have made since they started their frenzied career of conquest, they have had to pay a very heavy toll in warships, in transports, in planes, and in men. They are feeling the effects of those losses.”
“War is the sure result of the existence of armed men. That country which maintains a large standing army will sooner or later have a war. The man who prides himself on fisticuffs is going, some day, to meet a man who considers himself the better man, and they will test the issue.”