 I candidly confess that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of States. The control which, with Florida Point, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico, and the countries and isthmus...  The Life of Thomas Jefferson - Stran 482avtor: Henry Stephens Randall - 1858Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Georges Alfred Fauriol, Eva Loser - 1990 - 484 strani
...1823, Jefferson pointed out that United States domination of Cuba would give the United States "control over the Gulf of Mexico, and the countries and isthmus...it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it. . . ." Natural conditions being relentless, Cuba continues to command the Florida Straits, the entrance... | |
 | Jules R. Benjamin - 1990 - 252 strani
...appendage to it. Jefferson admitted toward the end of his life that "I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of states."2 At several points during his administration Jefferson 1 Robert F. Smith, What Happened in... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 strani
...the album Another Side of Bob Dylan ( 1 964). 2 I candidly confess that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be...system of States. The control which, with Florida, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico, and the countries and isthmus bordering on it, as... | |
 | Johannes Reiling - 1997 - 472 strani
...18 (1973): 64. '8 Jefferson schrieb darin: "I candidly confess, that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our System of States." Jefferson am 24.10.1823 an Monroe, The Portable Thomas Jefferson, ed. Merril D. Peterson (New York:... | |
 | Walter A. McDougall - 1997 - 316 strani
...confederacy any one or more of the Spanish provinces? I candidly confess, that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of states"2t John Quincy Adams could not have agreed more. He had just acquired Florida and would do nothing... | |
 | Lars Schoultz - 1998 - 500 strani
...months later he again wrote President Monroe: "I candidly confess, that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be...into it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being."24 Adams and his generation were willing to continue Jefferson and Madison's policy of... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1998 - 76 strani
...confederacy any one or more of the Spanish provinces? I candidly confess, that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of States. [1823 Letter to President James Monroe] -k (A Bill of Rights) would help create a national sentiment... | |
 | David Ryan - 2000 - 640 strani
...any possibilities of acquiring the island. Jefferson confessed 'that 1 have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be...and isthmus bordering on it. as well as all those waters flowing into it. would fill up the measure of our political wellbeing.' Even though acquiring... | |
 | the late Don E. Fehrenbacher - 2002 - 486 strani
...acquiring the island, and Jefferson later wrote to President James Monroe: "I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be...Mexico, and the countries and isthmus bordering on it, ... would fill up the measure of our political well-being."171 At about the same time, Secretary of... | |
 | Richard Brookhiser - 2002 - 258 strani
...acting together, Europe's despots would be powerless to intervene. As a bonus, we might pick up Cuba ("the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of States"). 28 Adams had known, and disliked, George Canning since his days as minister to Britain. Canning, an... | |
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