 | Aaron Bancroft - 1808 - 604 strani
...impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving 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 staad upoa foreign ground... | |
 | John Corry - 1809 - 262 strani
...impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving 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 ? WlfJ|(|iut our own to stand upon foreign ground':... | |
 | Albert Picket - 1820 - 314 strani
...impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation ; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. 37. It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances, with any portion of the foreign world... | |
 | Rhode Island - 1822 - 592 strani
...impossibility of making acquisitions upon us,will not lightly hazard the giving 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... | |
 | Thomas Jones Rogers - 1823 - 382 strani
...will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when 346 AMERICAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONAHY. 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 OWH to stand upon foreign ground.'... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1826 - 844 strani
...of making acquisitions upon us, " will not lightly hazard the giving 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... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - 1827 - 650 strani
...own altars and firesides, to take an attitude which would cause our neutrality to be respected, and choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. The acceptance of this invita? jion therefore, far from conflicting with the counsel or the policy of Washington,... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - 1827 - 658 strani
...altars and firesides, to take an attitude which would cause our neutrality to be respected, and cnoose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. The acceptance of this invitation therefore, far from conflicting with the counsel or the policy of Washington,... | |
 | J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - 1828 - 314 strani
...impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving 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... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1832 - 378 strani
...impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation ; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. 28. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground... | |
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... from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly... 
