Department of Defense Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1976: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representations, Ninety-Fourth Congress, First Session on an Act Making Appropriaitons for the Department of Defense for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1976, and for Other Purposes |
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الصفحة 39 - Just as it is gravely wrong to take from individuals what they can accomplish by their own initiative and industry and give it to the community, so also it is an injustice and at the same time a grave evil and disturbance of right order to assign to a greater and higher association what lesser and subordinate organizations can do.
الصفحة 156 - Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness ; on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end.
الصفحة 140 - At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us ; it cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all time or die by suicide.
الصفحة 155 - He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets, — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation ; but he shuts the door of truth.
الصفحة 39 - The higher level must not absorb the functions of the lower one, on the assumption that, being higher, it will automatically be wiser and fulfil them more efficiently.
الصفحة 139 - It is a harsh, but none the less necessary task to drive home the truth that human society and human life can never reach a state of repose. That imagined repose is another name for the security offered by a prison, and the longing for it may in a sense be an expression of cowardice and laziness, of the inability to face the fact that life is a perpetual and never resolved crisis.
الصفحة 123 - Or would he direct that money toward finding solutions to specific problems standing in the way of better weapons systems? There is no question in my mind but that the Department of Defense would get far more for its money if it were spent on specific defense projects where responsible official* had to review, approve, justify and defend the expenditures.
الصفحة 122 - IW,11, the benefits accruing to the military from this work are uncertain. In my opinion, whatever benefits have accrued from this program in past years have not been worth the cost. Certainly this is true in the areas in which I have direct knowledge. The Government has little control over IRfiD programs.
الصفحة 155 - The great use of a life is to spend it for something that outlasts it," and CP Oilman said, "Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead.