 | Mason Locke Weems - 1833 - 248 strani
...to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine...unnecessary, and would be unwise, to extend them. 44 TAKING care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive posture,... | |
 | Peter Stephen Du Ponceau - 1834 - 148 strani
...to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine...alliances for extraordinary emergencies. Harmony and liberal intercourse with all nations are recommended by policy, humanity and interest. But even our... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1837 - 622 strani
...to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine...alliances for extraordinary emergencies. Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest. But even our... | |
 | John Arthur Roebuck - 1835 - 584 strani
...public that to private affairs, that ' honesty is always the best policy.' I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine...always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies.... | |
 | Edward Deering Mansfield - 1836 - 304 strani
...applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat it therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine...opinion, it is unnecessary, and would be unwise, to wtend them. Taking care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, on » respectable defensive... | |
 | George Washington - 1837 - 620 strani
...to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine...alliances for extraordinary emergencies. Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest. But even our... | |
 | Mason Locke Weems - 1837 - 246 strani
...to public than to private affairs. that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine...always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies.... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1839 - 714 strani
...to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine...always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies."... | |
 | L. Carroll Judson - 1839 - 376 strani
...to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine...always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies.... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1839 - 500 strani
...would be unwise, to extend them. " Taking care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust...temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies." In a previous part of the same letter, Washington makes the following admirable and just remark : "... | |
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... so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy... 
