... 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
| Sheila Suess Kennedy - 2007 - 257 strani
...Washington: Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. . . . Why forgo the advantages of so peculiar a situation?...ambition, rivalship, interest, humor or caprice?" (1997, 39). The new country would be able to make decisions free of the encumbrances of treaties and... | |
| Frank Schorkopf - 2007 - 390 strani
...amerikanischen Demokratie, 1.Aufl., 1947, S. 151 (155); die Formulierung lautet im Original: »Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit...ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice?« konkreten Entscheidung durch ein überstaatliches Gremium. Dagegen nimmt ein dem Unilateralismus zuneigender... | |
| Daniel Webster - 2006 - 630 strani
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| Gautam Maitra - 2007 - 262 strani
...not far off, when we may defy material injury from external annoyance;...", and again, "why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit...ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice?" Paradoxically, it is the same American 'uniqueness' that had made America more dependent on the rest... | |
| M. Kent Bolton - 2008 - 452 strani
...politics, or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities . . . Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit...of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor or caprice?2 President John Quincy Adams, America's sixth president (1825-1829), neatly captured Washington's... | |
| Patrick J. Buchanan - 2007 - 316 strani
...connection as possible." Pointing to America's distance from Europe, Washington implored us, Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit...the toils of European Ambition, Rivalship, Interest, Humour, or Caprice? Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent Alliances, with any portion of... | |
| David S. Kidder, Noah D. Oppenheim - 2007 - 392 strani
...tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people to surrender their interests . . . Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any...ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice? Washington's clarion call to avoid foreign entanglements reflected, and helped to shape, an enduring... | |
| Michael Schmid - 2007 - 28 strani
...detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course [from Europe]" and asks "Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any...European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice?"2 Thomas Jefferson agreed with Washington's assessment and as secretary of state (1792) he... | |
| A. Ward Burian - 2007 - 490 strani
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