and alarmed if any of them fall into boy pics industrial or political
chaos. We do not wish to see any boy pics Old World military power grow up on this
continent, or to
be compelled to become a military power ourselves. The
peoples of the Americas can boy pics prosper best if left to work out their own
salvation in their own way.
The work of upbuilding the Navy boy pics must be steadily continued. No one point of
our policy, foreign or domestic, is more important than this to the honor
and material welfare, and above all to the peace, of boy pics our nation in the
boy pics future. Whether boy pics we desire it or not, we must henceforth recognize that we
have international duties no less than
international rights. Even if our
flag were hauled down in the Philippines and Puerto Rico, even if we
decided not to build boy pics the Isthmian Canal, we should need a thoroughly
trained Navy of adequate size, or else be prepared definitely and for all
time to abandon the idea that our nation is among those whose sons go down
to the sea in ships. Unless our commerce is always to be carried boy pics in foreign
bottoms, we must have war craft to protect it.
Inasmuch, however, as the American people have boy pics no thought of abandoning the
path upon which they have entered, and especially in view of the fact that
the building of the Isthmian Canal is fast becoming one of the matters
which the whole people are united in demanding, boy pics it is imperative that boy pics our
Navy should be put and kept in the highest state boy pics of efficiency, and should
be made to answer to our growing needs. So far from being in any way a
provocation to war, an adequate and highly trained navy is the best
guaranty against war, the cheapest and most effective peace insurance. The
cost of building and maintaining such a navy represents boy pics the boy pics very lightest
premium for insuring peace which this nation can possibly pay.
Probably no other great nation in the world is so anxious for peace as we
are. Boy pics there is not a single civilized power boy pics which has anything whatever to
boy pics fear