Military Readiness & Preparedness Quotes
Essentially similar ideas were expressed earlier by George Washington and in antiquity by Vegetius and Horace.
This historical quotation is important for two reasons, First, it shows us that the concept of a Canal was discussed fully a decade before Theodore Roosevelt actually had it built. Second, there were those who feared that a canal would actually be a detriment to the United States as our Navy was then quite weak. TR however built up the navy and made a great world-wide show of it and also built the Panama Canal.
During her adult life, she was the de facto ruler of China. This quotation is very important because it gives us an important insight into Chinese motives and historical drivers. The first reason is something almost all countries and cultures can identify with, but the second--to avoid being looked down—was just as important. Americans are relatively uncaring what the citizens of other countries think about them, but the Chinese do. So do other nationalities and cultures like the Arabs, the Iranians, many of the South American cultures. Often it takes on a different world like “dignity” or “respect”.
1st Earl of Beaconsfield
Roosevelt was then the Assistant Navy Secretary. However, the Secretary was on vacation and Roosevelt as Acting Secretary anticipated the Spanish American War. TR had also ordered large amounts of supplies and ammunition and when the President and Congress were faced with the possibility of war with Spain, the Navy was fully ready for war enabling the Declaration.
This quotation is referred to by these who debunk the myth that everyone was armed in early America. This was so on the frontier where there were potential Indian hostilities but in the rest of the country guns were not a part of everyday life or the culture. Even hunting was not that common an activity as raising cattle and farming was a much more reliable method of assuring a good food supply. The quotation is also often referred to in discussions regarding preparedness. This was an early example where the effect of peace and quiet was to diminish government budgetary commitment to military preparedness. . Floyd was very modern in his economic views, so much so that he, even as a Southern politician, opposed slavery on the grounds that it was economically inefficient and the South would never develop industrially if it had no incentive, as existed in the North and England, to reduce the amount of labor required for economic opportunity. He was right on that point as well.
While Northern industry was one of the major factors of the Union winning the Civil War, it took some time to ramp up civilian-controlled production. This historical experience, and that of WWI (soldiers had to drill with brooms for rifles) were two of the major influences on President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to begin to produce arms and ammunition before we were actually at war. Preparedness has been an American policy ever since with even the Republicans who castigated FDR as a warmonger for spending money on the military in peacetime became the preparedness hawks and moved to the opposite end of the political spectrum on defense spending,
This was a de facto requirement for the citizenry to be armed.
She was the 5th female member of the House and its first Jewish member. She was the first woman on the House Military Affairs Committee, and was one of the few Republicans who advocated spending for military preparedness. At the time of her service, many Republicans were strict isolationists.
