 | Sir William Gore Ouseley - 1832 - 232 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?... | |
 | Stephen Simpson - 1833 - 408 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?... | |
 | United States - 1833 - 64 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. Europe has a set of primary interests, ;which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence she... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1837 - 622 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... | |
 | Peter Stephen Du Ponceau - 1834 - 148 strani
...impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocations; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantage of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground?... | |
 | Edward Deering Mansfield - 1836 - 304 strani
...impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us pro-vocation ; 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... | |
 | Edward Deering Mansfield - 1836 - 304 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 forega the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground?... | |
 | George Washington - 1837 - 620 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 situatioh ? \Vhy quit our own to stand upon foreign ground... | |
 | Mason Locke Weems - 1837 - 246 strani
...impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocations; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. " WHT forego the advantages of so peculiar as : tuation ? Why quit our o-.vn, to stand upon foreign... | |
 | George Washington - 1838 - 114 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... | |
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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... 
