 With an experience thus suggestive and cheering, the policy of my Administration will not be controlled by any timid forebodings of evil from expansion. Indeed, it is not to be disguised that our attitude as a nation and our position on the globe render...  Annual Register - Σελίδα 302επεξεργασία από - 1854Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Owen Collins - 1999 - 464 σελίδες
...by any timid forebodings of evil from expansion. Indeed, it is not to be disguised that our attitude as a nation and our position on the globe render the...peace of the world. Should they be obtained, it will he through no grasping spirit, but with a view to obvious national interest and security, and in a... | |
 | John J. Mearsheimer - 2003 - 572 σελίδες
...made the point in his inaugural address on March 4, 1853: "It is not to be disguised that our attitude as a nation and our position on the globe render the...within our jurisdiction eminently important for our protection."'8 Of course, Americans had other motives for expanding across the continent. For example,... | |
 | Howard Jones - 2002 - 334 σελίδες
...address, "will not be ntrolled by any timid forebodings of evil m expansion. Indeed . . . our attitude as a nation and our position on the globe render the acquisition of ... [Cuba] eminently important for our protection, if not in the future essential for the preservation... | |
 | Eric H. Walther - 2004 - 240 σελίδες
...he promised a vigorous return on Manifest Destiny, the territorial expansion that Pierce considered "essential for the preservation of the rights of commerce and the peace of the world."11 A great campaign had already been launched in the country's efforts at commercial expansion.... | |
 | Antonio Rafael De la Cova - 2003 - 604 σελίδες
...In apparent reference to Cuba, the new president stated that the undisguised national attitude was "the acquisition of certain possessions not within...jurisdiction, eminently important for our protection." Pierce seemed to be thinking of reviving the Polk administration policy of purchasing Cuba and discouraging... | |
 | Michael Lind - 2006 - 304 σελίδες
...of March 4, 1853, President Franklin Pierce declared: "It is not to be disguised that our attitude as a nation and our position on the globe render the...within our jurisdiction eminently important for our protection."56 While territorial expansion did not violate America's democratic republican principles,... | |
 | Paul Calore - 2014 - 306 σελίδες
...forebodings of evil from expansion ... our attitude as a nation and our position on the globe render[s] the acquisition of certain possessions not within...the rights of commerce and the peace of the world." 13 Filibusters (1849 to 1860) During the Polk administration expansionism was a national goal, a drive... | |
 | Samuel Guy Inman - 1921 - 430 σελίδες
...controlled by any timid forebodings of evil from expansion. Indeed, it is not doubted that our attitude as a nation and our position on the globe render the acquisition of certain territory, not within our jurisdiction, eminently important for our protection." Since this book is... | |
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