But the governmental machinery for maintaining it and for making it visible to the world--we've simply neglected to build it or to shape it.

Hence the President's notes hurt nobody and accomplish nothing; nor could our navy put up a real fight, for lack of colliers and supply ships.

It's the same way all around the horizon.

And these are the reasons we haven't made our democracy impress the world more.
A democracy is not a quick-trigger war-engine and can't be made into one.

When the quick-trigger engines get to work, they forget that a democracy does not consider fighting the first duty of man.
You can bend your energies to peaceful pursuits or you can bend them to war.