 | One of 'em - 1855 - 340 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 - 1899 - 514 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."... | |
 | Furman Sheppard - 1855 - 340 sider
...for let me not be misunderstood as capable of patronising infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private...engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But, in rny opinion, it is unnecessary, and would be unwise to extend them. Taking care always to keep ourselves,... | |
 | 1845 - 74 sider
...lion- > esty is always the best policy. I repeat it, i therefore, let those engagements be observed ill their genuine sense. But, in my opinion, it is unnecessary, and would be unwise, to extend them. Taking care alwaos to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, on a respectable defensive posture, we may safely... | |
 | One of 'em - 1855 - 330 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 to temporary alliances for extraordinary eme-gencies. Harmony, and a liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity,... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1855 - 922 sider
...it; for let me not be understood as capable of patisnising infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honest)- is always the best policy. . I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in... | |
 | John Warner Barber - 1856 - 514 sider
...liberty to do it ; for let me not be understood as patronising infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private...temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies. 29. Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.... | |
 | John G. Wells - 1856 - 156 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...is unnecessary, and would be unwise to extend them. Harmony, and a liberal intercourse, with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.... | |
 | Thomas H. Buckley, Edwin B. Strong - 1987 - 228 sider
...peculiar a situation? ... lt is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances. . . . Taking care to keep ourselves by suitable establishments on a...temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies, [emphasis supplied by authors] Contrary to popular myth, nowhere did Washington use the word "isolation"... | |
 | Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, Kathleen Hall Jamieson - 1990 - 285 sider
...it; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. . . . [L]et those engagements be observed in their genuine...is unnecessary and would be unwise to extend them. 53 Two metaphorical patterns support this vision of the Union. On the one hand, it is an organism.... | |
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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... 
