 If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off, when we may defy material injury from external annoyance ; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality, we may at any time resolve upon, to be scrupulously...  458-1880 - Seite 1351921Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Indiana - 1851 - 720 Seiten
...when we may take such an attitue a§ will CHUSO the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon, to b« scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations,...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 ?... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1851 - 954 Seiten
...cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected ; when belligerant nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions...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?... | |
 | 1852 - 746 Seiten
...in reference to the agitating topics of the day, are well understood. In his address, he asks — " Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? " Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe entangle our peace and prosperity... | |
 | Henry Winter Davis - 1852 - 456 Seiten
...from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon, to be scrupulously respected; when...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... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 568 Seiten
...from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected ; when...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 ?... | |
 | John Richard Alden - 1984 - 356 Seiten
...annoyance." Then, foreign belligerents could be compelled to respect the rights of American neutrals. "Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity... | |
 | Myres S Mac Dougal, William Michael Reisman - 1985 - 490 Seiten
...from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when...provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. [...] It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent... | |
 | 1906 - 698 Seiten
...respected; when heiligeren t nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, \vi.l not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. PARTING COUNSELS. 1ц offering to you, my countrymen, these... | |
 | Grace Sevy - 1991 - 340 Seiten
...Washington had in mind when he asked a series of rhetorical questions in his farewell address in 1796: Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity... | |
 | J. Weston Walch, Kate O'Halloran - 1993 - 134 Seiten
.... . . Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. . . . Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity... | |
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