 | John Frost - 1848 - 424 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,... | |
 | Andrew White Young - 1848 - 244 sider
...for let me not be understood as capable of patron vi. ing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the beat policy. I repeat, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. Hut in... | |
 | Indiana - 1849 - 510 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.... | |
 | Indiana - 1849 - 520 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...alliances for extraordinary emergencies. Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest. But even our... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1850 - 488 sider
...for let trie 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."... | |
 | United States, William Hickey - 1851 - 616 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...is unnecessary, and would be unwise to extend them. 229 Taking care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, on a respectable defensive posture,... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1851 - 954 sider
...understood as capable of pati snising infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no i, \ess applicable to public than to private affairs, that...it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in (heir genuine sense ; but in my opinion it is unnecessary, and would be unwise, to extend them. " Taking... | |
 | Henry Winter Davis - 1852 - 456 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...affairs 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... | |
 | George Washington - 1852 - 76 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 affairs, that honesty is the best policy. I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense.... | |
 | Joseph Bartlett Burleigh - 1853 - 354 sider
...that honesty is [always]10" the best policy.) — [I repeat it therefore let those engagements] l03 be observed in their genuine sense. — But in my...respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to [temporary]104 alliances for extraordinary emergencies. Harmony, liberal intercourse with all Nations,... | |
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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... 
