 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1839 - 714 sider
...; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private...always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies."... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1839 - 500 sider
...would be unwise, to extend them. " Taking care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust...temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies." In a previous part of the same letter, Washington makes the following admirable and just remark : "... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1840 - 384 sider
...; for let me not be understood as capable of patronising infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private...alliances, for extraordinary emergencies. Harmony, _ and a liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest But... | |
 | Mason Locke Weems - 1840 - 256 sider
...for let me not' be understood as capable of patronising infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private...always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies.... | |
 | William Hobart Hadley - 1840 - 128 sider
...; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private...that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But in my opinion, it is unnecessary,... | |
 | Edward Currier - 1841 - 474 sider
...; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private...that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But in my opinion, it is unnecessary,... | |
 | 1841 - 460 sider
...; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private...that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But in my opinion, it is unnecessary,... | |
 | United States. President - 1842 - 794 sider
...it; for let me not be understood as capable of patronising infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private...that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But in my opinion, it is unnecessary... | |
 | M. Sears - 1842 - 586 sider
...it; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private...that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But, in my opinion, it is unnecessary,... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1843 - 534 sider
...it; for let me not be understood as capable of patronising infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private...unnecessary, and would be unwise, to extend them. 252 ments, in a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary... | |
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It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world; so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the... 
