Tasker H. Bliss Quotes
Must we conclude that no enlightened self-interest will ever impel nations to look on intervals of peace as other than periods of recuperation for war? I, for one, think not.
Tasker H. Bliss, 1853-1930, Army General, U. S. Army Chief of Staff, Member, American Delegation for the Negotiation of the Treaty of Versailles “European Conditions vs. Disarmament”, Foreign Affairs, March 1923
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Theodore Roosevelt was the Presidential nominee. Johnson was a leader of some members of Congress some of whom were extreme isolationists and some of whom were Nazi sympathizers and Hitler admirers. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor later that year, Germany, fulfilling its treaty with Japan, declared war on America, Johnson’s group no longer mattered. Before WWII most Republicans were opposed to Defense Spending and accused the Democrats of being war hawks. After WWII, they flip flopped and became more hawkish than the Democrats who they accused of being soft on defense for years thereafter. See {631380} for President Roosevelt’s different view.
Essentially similar ideas were expressed earlier by George Washington and in antiquity by Vegetius and Horace.
Tasker Howard Bliss was a United States Army officer who served as Chief of Staff of the United States Army from September 22, 1917 until May 18, 1918. He was also a diplomat involved in the peace negotiations of World War I, and was one of the co-signatories of the Treaty of Versailles for the United States.
