 | John Quincy Adams - 1875 - 556 strani
...against our ambition. Nothing that we could say or do would remove this impression until the world shall be familiarized with the idea of considering our proper dominion to be the continent of North America. From the time when we became an independent people it was as much a law of nature that this should... | |
 | Daniel Munro Wilson - 1902 - 428 strani
...possible. It was, however, as Secretary of State that his faith in his country found completest expression. The world must be " familiarized with the idea of considering our proper domain to be the continent of America." He secured Florida, he furthered the acquisition of Louisiana,... | |
 | Hubert Bruce Fuller - 1906 - 442 strani
...with that which has greatness mingled in its composition." He deemed it proper that the world should be "familiarized with the idea of considering our proper dominion to be the whole continent of North America." This was a "law of nature" and could not fail. To suppose that Spain... | |
 | William Henry Smith - 1925 - 600 strani
...diplomacy. The views of Secretary Adams were broad and grand. He wanted the world to become familiar with the idea of considering our proper dominion to be the continent of North America. He suggested to our minister at Madrid that it was scarcely possible to resist the conviction that... | |
 | Dexter Perkins - 1927 - 304 strani
...rest of the world ought to be excluded. The world, he declared in a cabinet meeting of November, 1819, must be familiarized with the idea of considering...proper dominion to be the continent of North America. From the time when we became an independent people it was as much a law of nature that this should... | |
 | Charles Prentice Howland - 1928 - 644 strani
...already in British and Spanish occupancy. The world, he declared in a cabinet meeting of November, 1819, must be familiarized with the idea of considering...proper dominion to be the continent of North America. From the time when we became an independent people it was as much a law of nature that this should... | |
 | Hilton Proctor Goss - 1955 - 334 strani
...passage from his diary. ENTRY IN DIARY OF JQ ADAMS, WASHINGTON, NOVEMBER 16, 1819: ... The world shall be familiarized with the idea of considering our proper dominion to be the continent of North America. From the time when we became an independent people it was as much a law of nature that this should... | |
 | Richard Warner Van Alstyne - 1974 - 244 strani
...Caledonia in the Oregon Negotiation of 1818 ', Amer. Hist. Rev., LV, 1949-50, pp. 530-51. year, ' shall be familiarized with the idea of considering our proper dominion to be the continent of North America '. And unlike Jefferson, Adams acted on the assumption that the boundaries of the United States would... | |
 | Noam Chomsky - 1985 - 344 strani
...Quincy Adams, while formulating the thinking that led to the Monroe Doctrine, stated to the cabinet that the world must be "familiarized with the idea...proper dominion to be the continent of North America." It is, he said, "as much a law of nature that this should become our pretension as that the Mississippi... | |
 | William Earl Weeks - 2002 - 256 strani
...Federalists. Adams later decreed continental expansion to be a manifestation of natural law: "The world shall be familiarized with the idea of considering our proper dominion to be the continent of North America. From the time that we became an independent people it was as much a law of nature that this should... | |
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Nothing that we could say or do would remove this impression until the world shall be familiarized with the idea of considering our proper dominion to be the continent of North America. From the time when we became an independent people it was as much... 
