Theodore Roosevelt

Peace is ardently to be desired, but only as the handmaid of righteousness. The only peace of permanent value is the peace of righteousness. There can be no such peace until well-behaved, highly civilized small nations are protected from oppression and subjugation.

The sole value of the promise comes in the performance.

Peace treaties and arbitration treaties unbacked by force are not merely useless but mischievous in any serious crisis.

Disarmament of the free and liberty-loving nations would merely mean insuring the triumph of some barbarism or despotism, and if logically applied would mean the extinction of liberty and of all that makes civilization worth having throughout the world.

The debt we owe to German blood is great; the debt we owe to German thought and to German example, not only in governmental administration but in all the practical work of life, is even greater. Every generous heart and every far-seeing mind throughout the world should rejoice in the existence of a stable, united, and powerful Germany, too strong to fear aggression and too just to be a source of fear to its neighbors.

Efficiency is the watchword of Switzerland, and not least in its army.

The navy of the United States is the right arm of the United States and is emphatically the peacemaker.

The only insurance of our liberties as a people is full preparation for a defense adequate against any attack and made in time to fully meet any attack.

It has been said that the United States never learns by experience but only by disaster. Such method of education may at times prove costly.

The two nations that during the last fifty years have made by far the greatest progress are Germany and Japan; and they are the two nations in which preparedness for war in time of peace has been carried to the highest point of scientific development.