“Peace through strength” first appears in the official Republican Party Platform in 1980 and remained in the platform for decades to follow, with a rare exception in 2020 when the Republican National Committee unanimously voted to skip adopting a platform and instead “continue to enthusiastically support” Trump’s “America-first agenda” and essentially continue with the 2016 platform, which also included “peace through strength.” I can not recommend to your notice measures for the fulfillment of our duties to the rest of the world without again pressing upon you the necessity of placing ourselves in a condition of complete defense and of exacting from them the fulfillment of their duties toward us. The documents which will be presented to you will shew the amount and kinds of arms and military stores now in our magazines and arsenals; and yet an addition even to these supplies can not with prudence be neglected, as it would leave nothing to the uncertainty of procuring warlike apparatus in the moment of public danger.
Author: Sarah Rumpf
Published at: 2025-06-23 22:57:21
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