 | 1957 - 1282 sider
...dangers, President Washington saw clearly the need for our country to gain time "to settle and mature its recent Institutions and to progress without interruption...strength and consistency which is necessary to give it ... the command of its own fortunes." Pointing to the dangers that lay ahead, he boldly charted a course... | |
 | Bradford Perkins, Walter LaFeber, Akira Iriye, Warren I. Cohen - 1995 - 276 sider
...now existing in it." In his Farewell Address, the first president expressed much the same thought: "With me, a predominant motive has been to endeavor...without interruption to that degree of strength and constancy which is necessary to give it command of its own fortunes." Except in moments of frenzy,... | |
 | Matthew Spalding, Patrick J. Garrity - 1996 - 244 sider
...told us in the Farewell Address, was designed "to gain time for our country to settle and mature its recent institutions, and to progress, without interruption,...consistency, which is necessary to give it, humanly speaking, command of its own fortunes."10 Washington here set out the central, definitive objective of American... | |
 | Gleaves Whitney - 2003 - 496 sider
...not just principle at work. Washington explained that, "With me a predominant motive [for neutrality] has been to endeavor to gain time to our country to...humanly speaking, the command of its own fortunes." Finally, the term "entangling alliances" is not in the text — that is a summation almost universally... | |
 | Bryan-Paul Frost, Jeffrey Sikkenga - 2003 - 852 sider
...that suggests America should be a "slave" neither to hatred of Britain nor to adoration of France: "a predominant motive has been to endeavor to gain...consistency, which is necessary to give it, humanly speaking, command of its own fortunes" (fF973, 977). America now is a lone superpower. Washington's prudential... | |
 | Seymour Martin Lipset - 1967 - 420 sider
...at least as necessary to fix the true character of government as of other human institutions. . . . "With me ... a predominant motive has been, to endeavor to gain time for our country to settle and mature its yet recent institutions, and to progress without interruption... | |
 | Paul J. Bolt, Damon V. Coletta, Collins G. Shackelford - 2005 - 506 sider
...adoration of France. He cites no names, presumably to avoid offense but also to state a general principle: "a predominant motive has been to endeavor to gain...consistency, which is necessary to give it, humanly speaking, command of its own fortunes" (W, 973, 977). His main concern was that the nation be independent enough... | |
 | Donald T Phillips - 2006 - 412 sider
...nation's first president. "My hope was to gain time for our country to settle and mature," he said, "and to progress without interruption to that degree...humanly speaking, the command of its own fortunes." In December 1799, while inspecting his property at Mount Vernon, Washington was caught in a surprise... | |
 | A. J. Langguth - 2006 - 499 sider
...alliances with any portion of the foreign world." Washington said that his own motive had been to try "to gain time to our country to settle and mature its yet recent institutions." is 75 Abigail Adams John Adams Chapter Four ADAMS (1797-1801) Since Abigail Adams had been ailing and... | |
 | Brandon Marie Miller - 2007 - 147 sider
...Alliances, with any portion of the foreign world." On Neutrality: "With me, a predominant motive has been to ... gain time to our Country to settle and mature...strength and consistency, which is necessary to give it ... the command of its own fortunes." On Retirement: Washington promised himself "the sweet enjoyment... | |
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With me, a predominant motive has been to endeavor to gain time to our country to settle and mature its yet recent institutions, and to progress, without interruption, to that degree of strength and consistency, which is necessary to give it, humanly... 
