 Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate...  The Great Problems of British Statesmanship - Página 403por J. Ellis Barker - 1917 - 445 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Clarence E. Wunderlin - 2005 - 278 páginas
...set of primary interests which to us have none or a very remote relation." He observed that America's "detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course." Most memorably, Washington concluded: "Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances, with... | |
 | Wardell Lindsay - 2006 - 24 páginas
...vicissitudes of her politics or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enemies. Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may take... | |
 | Steven Rosefielde, D. Quinn Mills - 2006 - 17 páginas
...party politics in our country. Like Washington, we have a profound distrust of European motivations. "Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course . . . /'Washington told our nation in his farewell address. "Why forgo the advantages of so peculiar... | |
 | Sheila Suess Kennedy - 2007 - 257 páginas
...need to put its trust in alliances and allies. McDougall quotes from a speech by George Washington: Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. . . . Why forgo the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why,... | |
 | Robert G. Kaufman - 2007 - 263 páginas
...administrations and inspired his Farewell Address of September 19, 1796, in which he justified this strategy. "Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course," counseled Washington. If we remain one people . .. the period is not very far off, when we may defy... | |
 | Michael Schmid - 2007 - 28 páginas
...famously cherished the geographic advantage the United States had according to him with the words: "Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course [from Europe]" and asks "Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle... | |
 | Gautam Maitra - 2007 - 262 páginas
...turned to America's advantages. Washington in his farewell address admitted this in the following words, "Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off, when we may defy... | |
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