 | 1939
...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... | |
 | United States, United States. Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission - 1941 - 885 sider
...experience. — With me, a predominant motive has been to endeavour to gain time to our country to settle & mature its yet recent institutions, and to progress without interruption, to that degree of strength & consistency, which is necessary to give it, humanly speaking, the command of its own fortunes. —... | |
 | 1957
...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... | |
 | 1951
...Nehru or by George Washington? With me, a predominent motive has been to endeavor to gain time for our country to settle and mature its yet recent institutions,...humanly speaking, the command of its own fortunes. What similarities can you think of between the problems of the newly independent United States of the... | |
 | United States. President - 1957
...dangers, President Washington saw clearly the need for our country to gam 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... | |
 | Paul C. Nagel - 1971 - 392 sider
...nation. First it needed a period "to settle and mature its yet recent institutions," and to develop "a degree of strength and consistency, which is necessary...give it, humanly speaking, the command of its own future." For Washington, America's significance was wrapped in survival. He told his countrymen that... | |
 | Jay Fliegelman - 1982 - 328 sider
...wish that it be closed permanently? The answer was clearly "no," as the address itself made explicit: 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,... | |
 | Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, Kathleen Hall Jamieson - 1990 - 275 sider
...urged, and "the fruits of such a plan [of avoiding entanglements]" would grow. 55 Finally, he said: "With me a predominant motive has been to endeavor...to settle and mature its yet recent institutions." 56 The Union was a living thing that required nurturing. A second set of metaphors described the conditions... | |
 | 1957
...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, Warren I. Cohen, Akira Iriye - 1995 - 272 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,... | |
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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... 
