 | United States - 1833 - 64 σελίδες
...engagements. I hold the maxim no less applica45 ble to public than to private affairs, that honesty is alvrays the best policy. I repeat it, therefore, let those...unnecessary, and would be unwise, to extend them. Harmony, and a liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1837 - 622 σελίδες
...not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs,...always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, on a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies.... | |
 | Peter Stephen Du Ponceau - 1834 - 148 σελίδες
...not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs,...always to keep ourselves by suitable establishments, on a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies.... | |
 | John Arthur Roebuck - 1835 - 584 σελίδες
...patronising infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public that to private affairs, that ' honesty is always the best...alliances for extraordinary emergencies. " Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest. But even our... | |
 | John Marshall - 1836 - 500 σελίδες
...not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs,...always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, on a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies.... | |
 | Edward Deering Mansfield - 1836 - 304 σελίδες
...not be understood as capable of patronizing infidel-ity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to. public than to private affairs,...always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, on a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies.... | |
 | Edward Deering Mansfield - 1836 - 304 σελίδες
...not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less- applicable to public than to private affairs,...opinion, it is unnecessary, and would be unwise, to wtend them. Taking care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, on » respectable defensive... | |
 | George Washington - 1837 - 620 σελίδες
...not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs,...always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, on a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies.... | |
 | George Washington - 1838 - 114 σελίδες
...capable of patronising infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to publick than to private affairs, that honesty is always the...always to keep ourselves, by suitable Establishments, on a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies.... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1839 - 714 σελίδες
...not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs,...temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies." In a previous part of the same letter, Washington makes the following admirable and just remark : "... | |
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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 infidelity to existing engagements. I hold... 
