 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1851 - 954 Seiten
...in us to implicate ourselves, by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships...will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected ; when belligerant nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions... | |
 | Indiana - 1851 - 720 Seiten
...unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships...from external annoyance : when we may take such an attitue a§ will CHUSO the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon, to b« scrupulously respected;... | |
 | United States, William Hickey - 1851 - 616 Seiten
...in us to implicate ourselves, by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships...the period is not far off when we may defy material inj'iry from external annoyance ; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we... | |
 | Joshua Muravchik - 1992 - 284 Seiten
...benefits of America's geographic isolation to keep the country safe and free from Europe's broils. "Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course," said Washington. "Why forgo the advantages of so peculiar a situation?" By isolating itself from European... | |
 | J. Weston Walch, Kate O'Halloran - 1993 - 134 Seiten
...have already formed engagements let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop. . . . Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. . . . Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign... | |
 | Various - 1994 - 676 Seiten
...in us to implicate ourselves, by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships...will cause the neutrality, we may at any time resolve upon, to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions... | |
 | Alfred W. Crosby - 1993 - 236 Seiten
...Washington to include in his Farewell Address one of those peculiarly American anticipatory boasts: "the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance . . . when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel."33 The census of 1800 confirmed... | |
 | Jürgen Elvert, Michael Salewski - 1993 - 356 Seiten
...engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns (...) Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course (...) Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation?"4 In 1823 President James Monroe and Secretary... | |
 | Henry Kissinger - 1994 - 920 Seiten
...implicate ourselves, by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her [European] politics, or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships...situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course.5 The new nation did not treat Washington's advice as a practical, geopolitical judgment but... | |
 | Anders Breidlid - 1996 - 428 Seiten
...unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships...will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions... | |
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Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the... 
