Japan's officers reorganized the Chinese army; her drill sergeants made the mediaeval warriors over into twentieth century soldiers, accustomed to all the modern machinery of war and with a higher average of marksmanship than the soldiers of any Western
nation. The engineers of Japan deepened and widened the intricate system of canals, built factories and foundries, netted the empire with telegraphs and telephones, and inaugurated the era of railroad- building.
If your
nation beat them, how came you to be taken?
As a
nation grows and changes, its literature grows and changes with it.
Washington, though in retirement, was brooding over the cruel injustice suffered by his associates in arms, the warriors of the Revolution; over the prostration of the public credit and the faith of the
nation, in the neglect to provide for the payments even of the interest upon the public debt; over the disappointed hopes of the friends of freedom; in the language of the address from Congress to the States of the eighteenth of April, 1788--"the pride and boast of America, that the rights for which she contended were the rights of human nature."
In its incorruptible flow all round the globe of the earth it preserves from the decay and forgetfulness of death the greatness of our great men, and amongst them the passionate and gentle greatness of Nelson, the nature of whose genius was, on the faith of a brave seaman and distinguished Admiral, such as to "Exalt the glory of our
nation."
Would he on any occasion either have demanded or have received the like humiliation from Spain, or Britain, or any other POWERFUL
nation?
The cries of the
nation and the importunities of their representatives have, upon various occasions, dragged their monarchs into war, or continued them in it, contrary to their inclinations, and sometimes contrary to the real interests of the State.
.testing whether that
nation, or any
nation so conceived and so dedicated.
All historians agree that the external activity of states and
nations in their conflicts with one another is expressed in wars, and that as a direct result of greater or less success in war the political strength of states and
nations increases or decreases.
Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the
nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish.
Well, to the king, the nobles, and all the
nation, down to the very slaves and tramps, I was just that kind of an elephant, and nothing more.
May He not have over-ruled their designs, and founded for us a
nation by them?
After a hundred years of growth, the Republic was still a loose confederation of separate States, rather than one great united
nation. It had recently fallen apart for four years, with a wide gulf of blood between; and with two flags, two Presidents, and two armies.
When we came near that coast, and began to rejoice at the prospect of ease and refreshment, we were on the sudden alarmed with the sight of a squadron of ships, of what
nation we could not at first distinguish, but soon discovered that they were three English and three Dutch, and were preparing to attack us.
How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments of every hostile
nation? The means of security can only be regulated by the means and the danger of attack.
