 | Aaron Bancroft - 1855 - 466 σελίδες
...the giving !l 1796-9.] LIFE OF WASHINGTON. 187 us provocation ; when we may choose peace or war is our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. "...peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foruign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1856 - 312 σελίδες
...Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens, that the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly...our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the... | |
 | John Philip Sanderson - 1856 - 380 σελίδες
...cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon, to be scrupulously respected ; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions...situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground 1 Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity... | |
 | William Sherwood - 1856 - 466 σελίδες
...cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected ; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions...peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own, to stand on foreign ground ? Why, hy interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our... | |
 | John Warner Barber - 1856 - 514 σελίδες
...cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon, to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions...as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. 28. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground?... | |
 | John G. Wells - 1856 - 156 σελίδες
...cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon, to be scrupulously respected ; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions...as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. Europe has a set of primary interests, which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence she... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton - 1961 - 630 σελίδες
...acquisitions upon us to be very careful how either forced us to throw our weight into the opposite scale — when we may choose peace or war as our interest guided by justice shall dictate. Why should we forego the advantages of so ha felicitous a situaForeign tion? Why should we... | |
 | Louis J. Mensonides, James A. Kuhlman - 1976 - 200 σελίδες
...cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions...as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel." In an important sense, the Monroe Doctrine represents the cap stone for nineteenth century American... | |
 | George Edward Thibault - 1984 - 916 σελίδες
...repugnant. Washington in his farewell address at Fraunces' Tavern advised that the nation should be able to "choose peace or war as our interest guided by justice shall counsel." But the last chance of the development of any significant degree of military professionalism in America... | |
 | Myres S Mac Dougal, William Michael Reisman - 1985 - 490 σελίδες
...cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions...as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. [...] It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world;... | |
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If we remain one people, under an efficient ' government, the 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 be scrupulously... 
