 ... 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 hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest,...  Democracy in America - Stran 227avtor: Alexis de Tocqueville - 2000 - 778 straniOmejen predogled - O knjigi
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 568 strani
...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 on foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 strani
...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 on foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our... | |
 | Henry Winter Davis - 1852 - 456 strani
...provocation; when we may choose peace or war as our interests guided by justice shall counsel. "Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand on foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1853
...the enjoyment of all the great advantages of that relation. " Why, then," he asks us, " why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit...ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice?" Indeed, Gentlemen, Washington's Farewell Address is full of truths important at all times, and particularly... | |
 | Joseph Bartlett Burleigh - 1853 - 354 strani
...when we may choose peace or war, as our interest guided by [98] justice shall counsel. — Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? — Why...the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humour or caprice ? — 'T is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances, [ " ] with any... | |
 | William L. Hickey - 1853 - 588 strani
...interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation 1 ! Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why,...European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice 1 It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world... | |
 | William Hickey - 1854 - 590 strani
...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...European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice 1 It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Tefft - 1854 - 560 strani
...the enjoyment of all the great advantages of that relation, " Why, then," he asks us, " why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit...ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice?" Indeed, gentlemen, Washington's Farewell Address is full of truths important at all times, and particularly... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1854 - 640 strani
...the enjoyment of all the great advantages of that relation. " Why, then," he asks us, " why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit...European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice ? " Indeed, Gentlemen, Washington's Farewell Address is full of truths important at all times, and... | |
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