 | John E. Hill - 2007 - 290 sider
...always be weak. He foresaw a time when we would be strong enough to enforce our neutrality, a time "when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel."5'' The Farewell Address was a partisan document containing practical advice, according to... | |
 | Robert G. Kaufman - 2007 - 263 sider
.... .. the period is not very far off, when we may defy material injury from external annoyance . .. when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not likely hazard the giving us of provocation; when we may choose between peace and war as our interests,... | |
 | Charles Reed, David Ryall - 2007 - 11 sider
...to steer clear of permanent alliances so that the nation might build strength to defend itself and 'may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel'.10 This admonition helped shape the American tradition of unilateralism, perhaps the oldest... | |
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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... 
