دانلود کتاب Our Rifles

This book was published in 1920 and is volume three.OUR RIFLESPLAYTHINGS IN PEACE -- WEAPONS IN WARNow comes again the ancient propaganda,spread by a vicious few, of international disarma-ment and everlasting peace. This pernicious doc-trine, as old as nations themselves, and nowproclaimed anew on the one hand by those whoare educationally or mentally defective and onthe other by seekers of gain who are knaves, isdangerous to all nations and especially menacingto the strength, the safety, and even the exis-tence of our own United States.Books may be filled with the pros and cons.Committees, jurists and international delegatesmay spend weeks and months in contemplationand argument. After all has been said everythingmay be rejected as not fundamental except a fewbasic facts. These are the basic facts:Belligerent human nature has not changed sinceCreation. Until human nature becomes divine,and on this earth it never will, certain causeswill result in strife between individuals. Untilnations become composed of other than just humanbeings certain causes must result in war. Therenever will be any value in written-upon-paperinternational agreements not to fight. There isno problem of everlasting peace.But there is a very real problem of how to bestrong in peace; not too strong but just strongenough; not for the purpose of being aggressivebut for the sake of being always capable of self-defence and yet a little more.