 | Charles Brandon Boynton - Eastern question (Balkan) - 1864 - 610 pages
...European dynasties, will depend more upon the wishes of those Powers than on our own. The United Stud's long ago reached that condition of conscious strength...Powers receive the lessons of our recent successes, and spoodily withdraw their criminal aggressions on a neighboring republic, thus paying their old homage... | |
 | 1919 - 902 pages
...impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation ; when we niay choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by our justice, shall counsel. That period has arrived. In 1796 the United States was an infant Nation of thirteen colonies, lying... | |
 | George Washington - Presidents - 1892 - 584 pages
...will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation to throw our weight into the oppooito r.cale ; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest guided by our justice shall counsel. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? — Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground?... | |
 | George Washington - Presidents - 1892 - 530 pages
...will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation to throw our weight into tho oppocite ncale ; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest guided by our justice shall counsel. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? — Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground?... | |
 | George Washington - 1896 - 44 pages
...impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation when we may choose peace or war, as our interest guided by our justice shall counsel. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? — Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground... | |
 | Adelaide Louise Rouse - United States - 1904 - 508 pages
...impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by our justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? — Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground?—... | |
 | Daniel Webster, Fred Newton Scott - Bunker Hill Monument (Boston, Mass.) - 1905 - 182 pages
...impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation ; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest guided by our justice shall counsel. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground... | |
 | John William Davis - Patriotism - 1908 - 146 pages
...impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation ; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by our justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground... | |
 | George Washington - Presidents - 1908 - 500 pages
...impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation when we may choose peace or war, as our interest guided by our justice shall counsel. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? — Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground?... | |
 | Charles William Eliot - America - 1910 - 480 pages
...impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by our justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? — Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground?... | |
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... 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 impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly... 
