The war then and there recognized was, on our part, a war of national defence, and its simple object was to put down the Rebellion.
But it must not be forgotten that in all it did, even for the recovery of indemnities, it acted under the duties and instincts of national defence.
Reviving a former proposition of Jules Favre's, Gambetta proposed to the Legislative Body the formation of a Committee of National Defence, and one was ultimately appointed; but the only member of the Opposition included in it was Thiers.
In 1806, when he had been chosen as one of the sixteen representative peers from Scotland, he delivered a speech in the House of Lords upon the subject of national defence, and his views were afterwards stated more fully in a book.
Military service shall be as provided in the Law of National Defence of the Realm.
All railways, including those not serving purposes of public communication, must accede to requirements of the Realm made in the interests of national defence.
In Bede's day there was no one to tax all England or to force upon all England a scheme of national defence.
There was a king of the English who was trying to coordinate his various dominions in one common scheme of national defence.
They contained only a glorification of the Revolution and a condemnation of certain perversions of the idea of national defence, created by that Revolution itself.
I said that I had never dealt with matters of policy, of national defence, or of administration on such a colossal scale.
The Commission of National Defence was, nevertheless, very well informed.
There, accordingly, it was proclaimed, the deputies for the city of Paris taking office as the Government of National Defence.
The last message of Count Palikao to the Chambers had been one of defiance to the enemy; and the Parisian deputies, nearly all of them Republicans, who formed the Government of National Defence, scouted all faint-hearted proposals.
Small portions of two or three of the following chapters have already appeared, in articles furnished by the author to the New York and Democratic Reviews, and in a "Report on the Means of National Defence," published by order of Congress.
Indeed, all the bulwarks of national defence which he could hope to oppose to the advancing enemy, were crumbling to pieces before his eyes.
Happily for us, we are not so situated as that any purpose of national defence requires, ordinarily and constantly, such a military force as might seriously endanger our liberties.
The navy is the active and aggressive element of national defence; and, let loose from our own sea-coast, must display its power in the seas and channels of the enemy.
Liberals should give up thinking of this question of national defence as a hateful one, and as one against which they ought to close their eyes and ears.
Demonstration, therefore, of the capacity of woman to take a useful share in national defence must be given in a sphere of work in which preservation, and not destruction of life, is the objective.
But was woman incapable of taking a responsible share in national defence?
They soon perceived that enthusiasm is not as great for a war of policy and conquest as for a war of national defence; and the army dwindled, since a country cannot bleed itself to death.
The vote is being taken to-day whether the population of Paris maintains in power the Government of National Defence.
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