 | Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1839 - 714 pages
...public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense...always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies."... | |
 | L. Carroll Judson - United States - 1839 - 376 pages
...public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense....always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies.... | |
 | L. Carroll Judson - 1839 - 364 pages
...would be unwise to extend them. Taking care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust...temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies. Harmony and a liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity and interest. But even... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1839 - 500 pages
...would be unwise, to extend them. " Taking care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust...temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies." In a previous part of the same letter, Washington makes the following admirable and just remark : "... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional law - 1840 - 394 pages
...public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense....alliances, for extraordinary emergencies. Harmony, and a liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest. But... | |
 | United States - 1840 - 128 pages
...to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense....alliances for extraordinary emergencies. Harmony, and a liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest. But... | |
 | Edward Currier - United States - 1841 - 474 pages
...to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense....alliances for extraordinary emergencies. Harmony, and a liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest. But... | |
 | Presidents - 1841 - 460 pages
...to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense....alliances for extraordinary emergencies. Harmony, and a liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest. But... | |
 | United States. President - Presidents - 1842 - 794 pages
...to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense....alliances for extraordinary emergencies. , Harmony and a liberal intercourse with all nations are recommended bj" policy, humanity, and interest. But... | |
 | M. Sears - Statesmen - 1842 - 586 pages
...to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense....alliances for extraordinary emergencies. Harmony, and a liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest. But... | |
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... infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But in my opinion it... 
