| Epes Sargent - 1852 - 568 σελίδες
...us provocation ; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand on foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our... | |
| George Washington - 1852 - 76 σελίδες
...Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may 4$fy material injury from external annoyance!; when we may take such an attitude as will $8e feiner... | |
| Henry Winter Davis - 1852 - 466 σελίδες
...enables us to pursue a different course. If we remain one people under an efficient government, the 48 period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon, to... | |
| Joseph Bartlett Burleigh - 1853 - 354 σελίδες
...detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. — If we remain one People, under an efficient government, the period...we may defy material injury from external annoyance ; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve [upon]94... | |
| 1906 - 698 σελίδες
...United /States JTîstory. 91 WASHINGTON'S FAREWELL ADDRESS— Continued. remain one people under аи efficient government, the period is not far off when...may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude us will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon, to... | |
| Grace Sevy - 1991 - 340 σελίδες
...Washington had in mind when he asked a series of rhetorical questions in his farewell address in 1796: 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... | |
| J. Weston Walch, Kate O'Halloran - 1993 - 134 σελίδες
.... . . 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 ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity... | |
| Various - 1994 - 676 σελίδες
...Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period...may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality, we may at any time resolve upon, to... | |
| Alfred W. Crosby - 1993 - 236 σελίδες
...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... | |
| Eugene V. Rostow - 1995 - 420 σελίδες
...neutrality, and "choose peace or war, as our interest guided by justice shall counsel." He continued, "Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? — Why quit our own to stand on foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace... | |
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