 | Daniel C. Palm - 1997 - 230 Seiten
...patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. (I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs that honesty is always the best policy.) I repeat, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But in my opinion it is unnecessary... | |
 | George Washington - 1998 - 40 Seiten
...patronizing infidelity to existing engagements (I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best...it therefore, let those engagements be observed in [27] their genuine sense. But in my opinion it is unnecessary and would be unwise to extend them. Taking... | |
 | John V. Denson - 570 Seiten
...of the foreign world.8 And again: Taking care always to keep ourselves by suitable establishments on a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust...temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies/ These key words — essentially foreign, true policy, taking care always — are those of a man quite... | |
 | Ted Galen Carpenter, Barbara Conry - 1998 - 300 Seiten
...Farewell Address. "Taking care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, on a respectably defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies." 38 By portraying NATO as a permanent alliance, the administration claims to be learning from the history... | |
 | Edward C. Luck - 2010 - 396 Seiten
...United States "to have with them as little political connection as possible." He urged that existing "engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But...is unnecessary and would be unwise to extend them." Arguing against "permanent alliances " Washington acknowledged that from "a respectable defensive posture,... | |
 | Richard Dowis - 2000 - 292 Seiten
...political connection as possible. . . . Taking care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments on a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust...extraordinary emergencies. Harmony, liberal intercourse witb all nations are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest. But even our commercial policy... | |
 | Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, Stephen J. McKenna - 1999 - 978 Seiten
...to extend them. Taking care always to keep ourselves, hy suitahle estahlishments, in a respectahle defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary...alliances for extraordinary emergencies. Harmony, and a liheral intereourse with all nations, are recommended hy policy, humanity, and interest. But... | |
 | Edward C. Luck - 2010 - 404 Seiten
...be unwise to extend them." Arguing against "permanent alliances," Washington acknowledged that from "a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies."4 After all, the alliance with France had just proved to be a considerable asset in the... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 2000 - 804 Seiten
...patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best...safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies."19 Earlier Washington had expressed this beautiful and true idea: "The nation which indulges... | |
 | Jim F. Watts, Fred L. Israel - 2000 - 416 Seiten
...less applicable to public than to private affairs that honesty is always the best policy. 1 repeat, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their...always to keep ourselves by suitable establishments on a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies.... | |
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It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world; so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidel-ity to existing engagements. 
