 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 defy material injury from external annoyance, when we may take such an...  The Diplomacy of the War of 1914 - Side 527av Ellery Cory Stowell - 1915 - 728 siderUten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | George Washington - 1800 - 240 sider
...far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfecT: good faith. — Hert let us stop. EUROPE has a set of primary interests,...as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. WHY forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? why quit our own, to stand upon foreign ground... | |
 | George Washington - 1800 - 232 sider
...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 our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. WHY forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? why quit our own, to stand upon foreign ground... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1801 - 586 sider
...neutrality, we may at any tim.e resolve upon, to be scrupulously respected ; when belligerent powers, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon...as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. " Why forego the advantages of such a peculiar situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground?... | |
 | 1802 - 440 sider
...interests. THE great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection...as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. WHY forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground... | |
 | John Taylor - 1804 - 148 sider
...attitude as will cause the neutrality, we may at any time resolve upon, to be scrupulously respecled ; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility...as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. "Why forego the advantages of so peculiars situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground... | |
 | Richard Snowden - 1805 - 398 sider
...ourselves, by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations or collisions of her friendships, or enmities. Our detached...as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground... | |
 | United States. President - 1805 - 276 sider
...attitude as will cause the neutrality, we may at any time resolve upon, to be scrupulously respect* ed ; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility...as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign, ground... | |
 | Richard Snowden - 1806 - 392 sider
...may take such .-.ri attiuvje as will c-.-ise th* neutrality, we may at any iime resolve upon, to bt 'scrupulously respected ; when belligerent nations,...as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground... | |
 | John Marshall - 1807 - 840 sider
...external annoyance ; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at anytime resolve upon, to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent...as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. " Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground?... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1807 - 576 sider
...when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightlr hazard the giving us provocation ; when we may choose...as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. " Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground... | |
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