 | Washington Irving - 2005 - 417 strani
...[ties] ft in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, [orj tt the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships, or enmities. Our detached and distant situation invites and enables m to pursue a different course. — lf we remain one People, under an efficient government, the period... | |
 | Wardell Lindsay - 2006 - 24 strani
...vicissitudes of her politics or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enemies. Our detached and distant situation invites and enables...government, the period is not far off when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously... | |
 | Steven Rosefielde, D. Quinn Mills - 2006 - 17 strani
...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... | |
 | Michael Lind - 2006 - 304 strani
...or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities." Washington continued: "Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course . . . Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign... | |
 | Gautam Maitra - 2007 - 262 strani
...turned to America's advantages. Washington in his farewell address admitted this in the following words, "Our detached and distant situation invites and enables...defy material injury from external annoyance;...", and again, "why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign... | |
 | Sheila Suess Kennedy - 2007 - 257 strani
...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?... | |
 | Michael Schmid - 2007 - 28 strani
...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... | |
 | Robert G. Kaufman - 2007 - 263 strani
...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... | |
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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 ourselves, by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the... 
