 | William Hickey - 1851 - 588 páginas
...us provocation ; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation?...the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice ? It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of... | |
 | 1852 - 746 páginas
...in reference to the agitating topics of the day, are well understood. In his address, he asks — " Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation...the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humour or caprice ?" The heart of a freeman beats when he listens to the stories of wrongs, and oppressions,... | |
 | William Hickey - 1851 - 580 páginas
...us provocation ; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground 1 Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity... | |
 | Truman Smith - 1851 - 36 páginas
...combinations and alliances of her friendship or enmities." •**•••" Wby, by interweaving our destinies with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity m the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice 1" The history of the country... | |
 | Andy Williams - 1998 - 230 páginas
...States out of foreign affairs. As he departed the presidency, Washington clearly articulated this view. 'Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why...the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor or caprice?' Of course, it was not possible to stay apart from the rest of the world, although... | |
 | Bernard De Voto, Bernard Augustine De Voto - 1998 - 694 páginas
...question which down to this day has lowered like a thunderhead whenever the nation has come in peril, "Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any...the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice?" Always when that cloud has gathered it has been dispelled by the same inexorability... | |
 | Abba Eban - 1998 - 204 páginas
...George Washington in his Farewell Address, "forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? . . . Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any...the toils of European Ambition, Rivalship, Interest, Humor or Caprice?"10 In strictly objective terms these references to Europe were churlish and unfounded.... | |
 | John V. Denson - 570 páginas
...vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships, or enmities Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any...the toils of European Ambition, Rivalship, Interest, Humour or Caprice? Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent Alliances, with any portion of the... | |
 | Richard N. Rosenfeld - 1998 - 1012 páginas
...conscience from its honesty?" Washington's Farewell Address asks, "Wliy, by interweaving our destiny with any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity...the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest humor or caprice? 'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances •with any portion of... | |
 | George Washington - 1999 - 142 páginas
...of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Farewell Address, Philadelphia, September 19, 1796 Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any...the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor or caprice? Farewell Address, Philadelphia, September 19, 1796 America may think herself happy... | |
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Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest,... 
