 | Hugh Gusterson - 2004 - 348 strani
...broke with George Washington's declaration in his farewell address that "the great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our...commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible."1 The North Atlantic Treaty marked the start of "an American protectorate for... | |
 | Jeremy A. Rabkin - 2004 - 284 strani
...avoid any further entanglements with the aims of foreign governments: "The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our...commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible"6 (original emphasis). Preoccupation with securing its independence did not... | |
 | Howard H. Lentner - 2004 - 244 strani
...guideline that would provide a beacon for American policy for centuries: "The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is in extending...commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible" (Washington 1796). Since that time, the United States has followed "the great... | |
 | Peter Augustine Lawler, Robert Martin Schaefer - 2005 - 444 strani
...odium, sometimes even with popularity; gilding with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable...compliances of ambition corruption or infatuation. As avenues to foreign influence in innumerable ways, such attachments are particularly alarming to... | |
 | Thomas L. Krannawitter, Daniel C. Palm - 2005 - 270 strani
...odium, sometimes even with popularity; gilding with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable...compliances of ambition corruption or infatuation. As avenues to foreign influence in innumerable ways, such attachments are particularly alarming to... | |
 | Wardell Lindsay - 2005 - 8 strani
...odium, sometimes even with popularity, gilding with appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable...compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation. As avenues to foreign influence in innumerable ways, such attachments are particularly alarming to... | |
 | Jeffrey Legro - 2005 - 284 strani
...Farewell Address to Congress is read aloud in Congress. In it he advises: The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our...commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible. . . . Why by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle... | |
 | Mark Skousen, Benjamin Franklin - 2005 - 514 strani
...of George Washington's farewell address, who in 1796 warned citizens, "The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending...commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible." Franklin had said it more succinctly in 1778, nearly two decades earlier:... | |
 | Mark David Ledbetter - 2004 - 268 strani
...congressmen apparently listened to it until 1898. Washington tells us, The Great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign Nations, is in extending...commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible.... Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to... | |
 | Jeremy A. Rabkin - 2005 - 366 strani
...influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government. . . . The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our...commercial relations to have with them as little political connection [original emphasis] as possible . . . there can be no greater error that to expect or calculate... | |
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The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible. 
