[Our] people are not a warlike nation. It is a soldierly one, which means it does not want war but does not fear it. It loves peace, but also its honor and freedom.
—— Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf.
We are not a warlike people. Quite the opposite. We always seek to live in peace. We resort to force infrequently and with great reluctance–and only after we have determined that it is absolutely necessary.
—— Ronald W. Reagan, July 17, 1980.
Commander John Hubbard, of the USS Nashville, under orders from Commander-in-Chief Theodore Roosevelt, drops anchor in Colon, in the Colombian enclave of Panama, thus preventing the Navy of Colombia from landing troops to suppress the Panamanian Revolution.
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Authority:
“Law of the Jungle”
ccc-2point0.com/preface
References:
Calvin D. Linton, ed., The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 263.
‘We Are a Peaceful People’ by Stephen Bender
www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/bender4.html
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