Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. 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... The Monroe Doctrine: An Essay - 5. oldalszerző: Alexander Francis Morrison - 1896 - 51 oldalTeljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
| George Washington - 1800 - 240 oldal
...far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfecT: good faith. — Hert let us stop. EUROPE has a set of primary interests,...interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. WHY forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? why quit our own, to stand upon foreign ground ? why, by interweaving... | |
| George Washington - 1800 - 232 oldal
...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...interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. WHY forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? why quit our own, to stand upon foreign ground ? why, by interweaving... | |
| William Cobbett - 1801 - 586 oldal
...neutrality, we may at any tim.e resolve upon, to be scrupulously respected ; when belligerent powers, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon...guided by justice, shall counsel. " Why forego the advantages of such a peculiar situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving... | |
| 1802 - 440 oldal
...interests. THE great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection...interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. WHY forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving... | |
| John Taylor - 1804 - 148 oldal
...attitude as will cause the neutrality, we may at any time resolve upon, to be scrupulously respecled ; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility...guided by justice, shall counsel. "Why forego the advantages of so peculiars situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving... | |
| Richard Snowden - 1805 - 398 oldal
...ourselves, by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations or collisions of her friendships, or enmities. Our detached...interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving... | |
| United States. President - 1805 - 276 oldal
...attitude as will cause the neutrality, we may at any time resolve upon, to be scrupulously respect* ed ; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility...interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign, ground ? Why, by interweaving... | |
| Richard Snowden - 1806 - 392 oldal
...may take such .-.ri attiuvje as will c-.-ise th* neutrality, we may at any iime resolve upon, to bt 'scrupulously respected ; when belligerent nations,...interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving... | |
| John Marshall - 1807 - 840 oldal
...external annoyance ; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at anytime resolve upon, to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent...guided by justice, shall counsel. " Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? why, by interweaving... | |
| Aaron Bancroft - 1807 - 576 oldal
...when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightlr hazard the giving us provocation ; when we may choose...guided by justice, shall counsel. " Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving... | |
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