 | 1859 - 370 strani
...impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not rightly 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... | |
 | J. T. Headley - 1859 - 528 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 advantage of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground?... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1859 - 674 strani
...impossibility of making acquisitions upon us. will not lightly huzard the giving us provocation ; 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?... | |
 | J. T. Headley - 1860 - 558 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 advantage of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground... | |
 | 1952 - 1232 strani
...impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war. as our interest guided by justice, shall counsel. . . . Taking care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishment*, in a respectable defensive... | |
 | Felix Gilbert - 1961 - 188 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... | |
 | Louis J. Mensonides, James A. Kuhlman - 1976 - 200 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." In an important sense, the Monroe Doctrine represents the cap stone for nineteenth century American... | |
 | George Edward Thibault - 1984 - 916 strani
...repugnant. Washington in his farewell address at Fraunces' Tavern advised that the nation should be able to "choose peace or war as our interest guided by justice shall counsel." But the last chance of the development of any significant degree of military professionalism in America... | |
 | Myres S Mac Dougal, William Michael Reisman - 1985 - 490 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. [...] It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world;... | |
 | Brewster C. Denny - 1985 - 218 strani
...assured his fellow countrymen of a still fragile and beleaguered nation, lead to a time "when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel." Four years later Thomas Jefferson, as he became the third President of a new nation which had not yet... | |
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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... 
