"A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one." Alexander Hamilton
Let's set the record straight. There is no argument over the choice between peace ...
"A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one." Alexander Hamilton
Let's set the record straight. There is no argument over the choice between peace and war, but there is only one guaranteed way you can have peace--and you can have it in the next second--surrender.
Admittedly there is a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson in history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face--that their policy of accommodation is appeasement, and it gives no choice between peace and war, only between fight and surrender. If we continue to accommodate, continue to back and retreat, eventually we have to face the final demand--the ultimatum. And what then? When Nikita Khrushchev has told his people he knows what our answer will be? He has told them that we are retreating under the pressure of the Cold War, and someday when the time comes to deliver the ultimatum, our surrender will be voluntary because by that time we will have weakened from within spiritually, morally, and economically. He believes this because from our side he has heard voices pleading for "peace at any price" or "better Red than dead," or as one commentator put it, he would rather "live on his knees than die on his feet." And therein lies the road to war, because those voices don't speak for the rest of us. You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery. If nothing in life is worth dying for, when did this begin--just in the face of this enemy? Or should Moses have told the children of Israel to live in slavery under the pharaohs? Should Christ have refused the cross? Should the patriots at Concord Bridge have thrown down their guns and refused to fire the shot heard 'round the world? The martyrs of history were not fools, and our honored dead who gave their lives to stop the advance of the Nazis didn't die in vain. Where, then, is the road to peace? Well, it's a simple answer after all.
You and I have the courage to say to our enemies, "There is a price we will not pay." There is a point beyond which they must not advance. This is the meaning in the phrase of Barry Goldwater's "peace through strength." Winston Churchill said that "the destiny of man is not measured by material computation. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we are spirits--not animals." And he said, "There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty."
You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on Earth, or we will sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness.
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Fox News contacted 400 people from Columbia Univ. from his class, they didn't know him, the Class President with the same degree major, he didn't know him, he even asked around at the class reunion -- no one knew him and his picture isn't in the class year book!!! Who is Barack Obama?
I don't know much on FDR but I know Lincoln and he did not damage the republic. If Lincoln had not done the things he did the seceding states would have become a new country and have successfully rebelled against the US and proved to the world that democracy was a weak and hopeless form of government. The British would likely to have come over and taken back the America, as it wanted to since it's departure.
Instead he proved that even through war the republic stands strong!
England was all for the CSA. They loved the idea that America wasn't as strong as it looked at that time. England continued to trade with the CSA for a while, but by the influence of English citizens, the Union's promises of war if they did not cut ties and remain neutral, and the fact they had other choices to go for other than the CSA for cotton they gave in and mostly stopped trading and helping of the CSA.
The Union did not reinforce the fort. They sent supplies such as food and water. Not even extra men, let alone weapons or ammo. Besides in the eyes of the Union the CSA was not a country, and their secession was not even legal.
This is so true I'm a teen and there are few to no real Americans at my age its all just criminals, gothic and emo retards, or those people who just don't have patriotism in their hearts.
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Instead he proved that even through war the republic stands strong!