 | Alfred W. Crosby - 1993 - 236 sider
...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 of 1800 confirmed Franklin's half-century-old estimation of the doubling rate... | |
 | Stanley M. Elkins, Eric McKitrick - 1995 - 952 sider
...its institutions and acquire the strength to command its own fortunes. The period "is not far off ... when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel."10 So the Farewell Address cannot be construed, except in the most tortured sense, as an "isolationist"... | |
 | Eugene V. Rostow - 1995 - 420 sider
...enough to "defy material injury from external annoyance," insist on respect for our 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... | |
 | Anders Breidlid - 1996 - 428 sider
...attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility...justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation;- Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why. by interweaving our destiny... | |
 | Matthew Spalding, Patrick J. Garrity - 1996 - 244 sider
...attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility...may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by our justice shall Counsel.75 The dictates of justice in international affairs, as Washington understood... | |
 | Richard C. Sinopoli - 1996 - 456 sider
...attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility...justice shall Counsel. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny... | |
 | Daniel C. Palm - 1997 - 230 sider
...attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility...may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by our justice shall Counsel. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to... | |
 | Scott L. Bills, E. Timothy Smith - 1997 - 348 sider
...government, 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."" Seen in this light, Clinton's unmistakable message on foreign affairs was that the United States had... | |
 | Walter A. McDougall - 1997 - 316 sider
...the impossibihty of making acquisitions upon us, will not hghtly hazard the giving us provocarion; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, thall counsel. Why forego the advantages of so pecuhar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon... | |
 | George Washington - 1998 - 40 sider
...attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility...our interest guided by justice shall counsel. Why forgo the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why,... | |
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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... 
