No country on the globe is so happily situated, so internally capable of raising a fleet

as America. Tar, timber, iron, and cordage are her natural produce. We need go abroad

for nothing. Whereas the Dutch, who make large profits by hiring out their ships of war

to the Spaniards and Portuguese, are obliged to import most of the materials they use. We

ought to view the building a fleet as an article of commerce, it being the natural

manufactory of this country. It is the best money we can lay out. A navy when finished is

worth more than it cost. And is that nice point in national policy, in which commerce and

protection are united. Let us build; if we want them not, we can sell; and by that means

replace our paper currency with ready gold and silver.

Common Sense

>>2395254

"Some, perhaps, will say, that after we have made it up with Britain, she will protect

us. Can we be so unwise as to mean, that she shall keep a navy in our harbours for that

purpose? Common sense will tell us, that the power which hath endeavored to subdue us,

is of all others, the most improper to defend us. Conquest may be effected under the

pretence of friendship; and ourselves, after a long and brave resistance, be at last cheated

into slavery. And if her ships are not to be admitted into our harbours, I would ask, how

is she to protect us? A navy three or four thousand miles off can be of little use, and on

sudden emergencies, none at all. Wherefore, if we must hereafter protect ourselves, why

not do it for ourselves? Why do it for another?"

Common Sense

>>2395331

hahah looks like the friendliest loving smartest unified bunch of americans ive ever seen in my life!

>>2395404

excellent answer.

She knows we dont incite.

We defend.

I dare people at the next trump rally to treat acosta with overwhelming love. Like a retard who feels singled out so everybody becomes extra nice to him to make him feel welcome and watch CNN try to spin it