...republics were such as to call for our efforts to defeat the meditated crusade. Mr. Jefferson said : — The question presented by the letters you have sent...ocean of time opening on us. And never could we embark on it under circumstances more auspicious. Our first and fundamental maxim should be never to entangle...

...Congress, vol. 38, 429, 431. 36. Adams, Memoirs, VI, 163. 37. R. Rush, The Court of London, 430-432. tion presented by the letters you have sent me, is the most momentous . . . since that of independence. That made us a nation, this . . . points the course we are to steer...

...generations. In a letter dated October 24, 1823, Ex-President Jefferson wrote to Ex-President Madison in part: "The question presented by the letters you have sent...ocean of time opening on us. And never could we embark on it under circumstances more auspicious. Our first and fun* damental maxim should be never to entangle...

...dispatches, with an intimation of the motive." Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, October 24, 1823 : "The question presented by the letters you have sent...nation; this sets our compass and points the course we are to steer through the ocean of time opening on us. And never could we embark on it under circumstances...

...President Monroe before the message was sent, said: "The question presented ... is the most momentous . . . since that of independence. That made us a nation...to steer through the ocean of time opening on us. ... Our first and fundamental maxim should be, never to entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe;...

...how logically he deduced the Monroe Doctrine from the principles of Washington's Farewell Address : " The question presented by the letters you have sent me is the most momentous which has been offered to my contemplation since that of Independence. That made us a nation ; this seta the...

...correspondence with Canning. Monroe wrote Jefferson, and Jefferson replied that the question presented was "the most momentous which has ever been offered to...made us a nation; this sets our compass and points out the course which we are to steer through the ocean of time opening on us." Back of all that had...

...[President Monroe, who had asked for advice in 1823, when preparing what became the Monroe Doctrine] sent me is the most momentous which has ever been...ocean of time opening on us. And never could we embark on it under circumstances more auspicious. Our first and fundamental maxim should be, never to entangle...

...Monroe in a letter on the Monroe Doctrine: "[ Independence] made us a nation, (the Monroe Doctrine] sets our compass and points the course which we are...to steer through the ocean of time opening on us." Quoted in Sculley Bradley et aL, eds.. The American Tradition in Literature 1:330. By February 15,...

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