 | 1853 - 514 strani
...justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny...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... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1853
...then," he asks us, " why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny...the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice?" Indeed, Gentlemen, Washington's Farewell Address is full of truths important at... | |
 | William L. Hickey - 1853 - 588 strani
...justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation 1 ! Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny...the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice 1 It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of... | |
 | William Hickey - 1854 - 590 strani
...justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny...the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice 1 It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1854 - 492 strani
...justice, shall counsel. " Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny...the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice ? " It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion... | |
 | Gleaves Whitney - 2003 - 496 strani
...justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny...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... | |
 | Nau Nihal Singh - 2002 - 232 strani
...exclaimed 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 Caprice?"10 In strictly objective terms these references to Europe were churlish and unfounded.... | |
 | James Charlton - 2002 - 204 strani
...stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race. WALTER LIPPMANN It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world. GEORGE WASHINGTON Alliances are held together by fear, not by love.... | |
 | Eric Donald Hirsch, Joseph F. Kett, James Trefil, James S. Trefil - 2002 - 944 strani
...George WASHINGTON had given similar isolationist advice four years earlier in his FAREWELL ADDRESS: "It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world." Erie Canal An artificial waterway built across NEW YORK state in... | |
 | Fraser Cameron - 2002 - 244 strani
...extending our commercial relations but to have with them as little political connections as possible. It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world." This policy of non-entanglement or isolationism from other countries... | |
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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,... 
