 | Wardell Lindsay - 2006 - 24 Seiten
...excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated. The Nation, which indulges towards another an habitual...offer insult and injury, to lay hold of slight causes of umbrage, and to be haughty and intractable, when accidental or trifling occasions of dispute occur.... | |
 | John Milton Mackie, Frank E. Grizzard - 2006 - 170 Seiten
...excluded; and that in place of them just & amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated. The Nation, which indulges towards another an habitual...offer insult and injury, to lay hold of slight causes of umbrage, and to be haughty and intractable, when accidental or trifling occasions of dispute occur.... | |
 | Mark Steyn - 2006 - 258 Seiten
...of responsibility for its own security. In 1796 George Washington wrote to Alexander Hamilton: "The nation which indulges towards another an habitual...to lead it astray from its duty and its interest." That neatly sums up the Euro-American relationship: the United States has become a slave to its habitual... | |
 | J. Michael Waller - 2007 - 524 Seiten
...and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated. The nation, which indulges towards another in habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some...offer insult and injury, to lay hold of slight causes of umbrage, and to be haughty and intractable, when accidental or trifling occasions of dispute occur.... | |
 | James R. Gaines - 2007 - 580 Seiten
...indulges towards another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave," he wrote. "It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection,...to lead it astray from its duty and its interest." He learned that not from a book but on the frontier, on the battlefield, and in the presidency. He... | |
 | Stacy A. Cordery - 2007 - 648 Seiten
...Washington's exhortation would become apparent if people did not forget to remember how he qualified it: 'The nation which indulges towards another an habitual...or an habitual fondness is in some degree a slave.' This is my credo." Borah fervently shared that credo. He went to his grave regretting that he could... | |
 | Richard Brookhiser - 2007 - 274 Seiten
...ill-will, and the latter breeds favoritism. Both lead to a loss of judgment, and of self-control. "The nation, which indulges towards another an habitual...hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave"—a charged word for a slave owner to use. "It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection,... | |
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The nation which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is, in some degree, a slave. It is a slave to its animosity, or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest. 
