 | Benjamin Franklin Tefft - 1854 - 560 pages
...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...the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice?" Indeed, gentlemen, Washington's Farewell Address is full of truths important at... | |
 | United States. President - 1854 - 616 pages
...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 and prosperity...the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice ? It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1854 - 492 pages
...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...the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice ? " It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion... | |
 | Jonathan French - 1854 - 534 pages
...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...the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor or caprice ? It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of... | |
 | 1854 - 576 pages
...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 and prosperity...the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor or caprice ? H2. SANCTITY OF TREATIES, 1796. — Fuller Amei. Fisher Amefl, one of the moat eloquent... | |
 | John V. Denson - 570 pages
...combinations and collisions of her friendships, or enmities Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity...policy to steer clear of permanent Alliances, with any portion of the foreign world/ In a total flouting of Washington's prescient advice, Presidents... | |
 | George Washington - 1998 - 40 pages
...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...the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice? It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of... | |
 | Andy Williams - 1998 - 230 pages
...this view. '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...the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor or caprice?' Of course, it was not possible to stay apart from the rest of the world, although... | |
 | H. W. Brands - 1998 - 356 pages
...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...the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice?"3 n Why indeed? Jefferson asked during his own presidency. Responsibility and Napoleon... | |
 | Bernard De Voto, Bernard Augustine De Voto - 1998 - 694 pages
...like a thunderhead whenever the nation has come in peril, "Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity...the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice?" Always when that cloud has gathered it has been dispelled by the same inexorability... | |
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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 in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest,... 
