 ... 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 respected; when belligerent nations, under the...  The Rochesterian: Selected Writings - Page 52by Joseph O'Connor - 1911Full view - About this book
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 pages
...scrupulously respected ; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation...situation ? Why quit our own, to stand upon foreign ground 1 Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity... | |
 | Alexis Poole - 1847 - 514 pages
...scrupulously respected when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation;...advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to §tand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle... | |
 | George Washington - 1848 - 612 pages
...scrupulously respected; when helligerent nations, under the impossihility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation;...we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided hy justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own... | |
 | Andrew White Young - 1848 - 304 pages
...scrupulously respected ; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation...European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor or caprice ? ft is our fnie policy to steer clear of permanent alliance* Xvith any portion of the foreign world... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - 2000 - 662 pages
...scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation;...ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice? . . . Though in reviewing the incidents of my administration I am unconscious of intentional error,... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 2000 - 804 pages
...scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation;...our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. "Why forgo the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why,... | |
 | Bill Grantham - 2000 - 198 pages
...United States were determined not to be European. "Why," George Washington said in his farewell address, "by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity to the toils of European Ambition, Rivalship, Interest, Humour or Caprice?"* Washington, a politician... | |
 | 1898 - 784 pages
...respected; when beligerent nations under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose...as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel." We have followed his advice, we have made no foreign alliances, but we have found "the period" when... | |
 | John V. Denson - 2001 - 830 pages
...government, the period is not far off, when we may defy material injury from external annoyance. . . . Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground.29 Here Washington adopts the much maligned Fortress America stance so derided by critics of... | |
 | Gleaves Whitney - 2003 - 496 pages
...belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or...ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice? It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world,... | |
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