 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1850 - 318 Seiten
...lightly hazard the giving us provocation ; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantages...the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice ? "Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1850 - 488 Seiten
...lightly hazard the giving us provocation ; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. " Why forego the advantages...the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice ? " It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion... | |
 | William Hickey - 1851 - 588 Seiten
...lightly hazard the giving us provocation ; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantages...the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice ? It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1851 - 954 Seiten
...lightly hazard the giving us provocation ; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. " Why forego the advantages...the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice ? i " It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances witL ii any portion... | |
 | Bernard De Voto, Bernard Augustine De Voto - 1998 - 694 Seiten
...question which down to this day has lowered like a thunderhead whenever the nation has come in peril, "Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any...the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice?" Always when that cloud has gathered it has been dispelled by the same inexorability... | |
 | Abba Eban - 1998 - 204 Seiten
...George Washington in his Farewell Address, "forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? . . . Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any...the toils of European Ambition, Rivalship, Interest, Humor or Caprice?"10 In strictly objective terms these references to Europe were churlish and unfounded.... | |
 | Richard N. Rosenfeld - 1998 - 1012 Seiten
...conscience from its honesty?" Washington's Farewell Address asks, "Wliy, by interweaving our destiny with any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity...the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest humor or caprice? 'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances •with any portion of... | |
 | George Washington - 1999 - 142 Seiten
...of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Farewell Address, Philadelphia, September 19, 1796 Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any...the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor or caprice? Farewell Address, Philadelphia, September 19, 1796 America may think herself happy... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1999 - 374 Seiten
...lightly hazard the giving us provocation ; wher we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided bj justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantages...situation ? Why quit our own, to stand upon foreign ground T Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity... | |
 | Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, Stephen J. McKenna - 1999 - 978 Seiten
...the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Wby quit our own, to stand upon foreign ground? Wby, hy interweaving our destiny with that of any part of...our peace and prosperity in the toils of European amhition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice? *Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent... | |
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Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest,... 
