 | Ruth Sarles - 2003 - 238 strani
...portion of Washington's Farewell Address of September 17, 1796, reads: 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. So far as we have already formed engagements let them be fulfilled with perfect... | |
 | James Walsh - 2004 - 344 strani
...often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of nations has been the victim. .. .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. In those few paragraphs, Washington anticipated many of the problems that America... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville, Arthur Goldhammer - 2004 - 941 strani
...fellow citizens that served as his political testament, had this to say: 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. So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled, with perfect... | |
 | Chalmers A Johnson, James Carroll - 2004 - 389 strani
...of September 17, 1796, George Washington told his fellow Americans, "The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is — in extending...relations — to have with them as little political connection as possible."10 To twentyfirst-century ears, this pronouncement seems highly idealistic... | |
 | Hugh Gusterson - 2004 - 312 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 - 257 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 - 227 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 - 427 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 - 247 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 - 6 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... | |
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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. 
