 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 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....temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies. Harmony and a liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest. But... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1843 - 534 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...unnecessary, and would be unwise, to extend them. 252 ments, in a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary... | |
 | Samuel Farmer Wilson - United States - 1843 - 452 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. But, in my opinion, il is unnecessary, and would be unwise, to extend them. Taking care always to keep ourselves, by suitable... | |
 | M. Sears - Statesmen - 1844 - 596 pages
...toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice? 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... | |
 | M. Sears - Statesmen - 1844 - 582 pages
...that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat, therefore, Jet those engagements be 'Ob• served in their genuine sense. But, in my opinion, it is...alliances for extraordinary emergencies. Harmony, and a liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest. Bat... | |
 | Daniel Gardner - Constitutional law - 1844 - 324 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.... | |
 | Daniel Gardner - Constitutional law - 1844 - 336 pages
...policy. I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But in • 264 my opinion it is unnecessary, and would be unwise...always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies.... | |
 | Almanacs, American - 1844 - 468 pages
...applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat it, in their genuine sense. But, in my opinion, it is...unnecessary, and would be unwise, to extend them. Taking care alwaos to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, on a respectable defen- * sive posture, we may... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1845 - 492 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....temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies. Harmony and a liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest. But... | |
 | William Hickey - Constitutional history - 1846 - 396 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....temporary 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... 
