 | Joseph Bartlett Burleigh - Parliamentary practice - 1853 - 354 pages
...that honesty is [always]10" the best policy.) — [I repeat it therefore let those engagements] l03 be observed in their genuine sense. — But in my...respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to [temporary]104 alliances for extraordinary emergencies. Harmony, liberal intercourse with all Nations,... | |
 | William L. Hickey - Constitutional history - 1853 - 588 pages
...public than to private affairs, that honesty is always tne best policy. 1 repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But, in my opinion, it is unubcessary, and would be unwise to extend them. Taking care always to keep ourselves, by suitable... | |
 | United States. President - United States - 1854 - 616 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....temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies. Harmony and a liberal intercourse with all nations are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest. But even... | |
 | Henry Clay Watson - United States - 1854 - 1012 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... | |
 | Jonathan French - 1854 - 534 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... | |
 | William Hickey - Constitutional history - 1854 - 590 pages
...public than to private affairs, that honesty is always me 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... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1854 - 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...always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies."... | |
 | United States - 1980 - 272 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....opinion it is unnecessary and would be unwise to extend them.88 Washington thus developed beyond the earlier intimations of Jefferson, principles which underlay... | |
 | John Richard Alden - 1984 - 356 pages
...with France. Its provisions should be observed "in their genuine sense." For the future, "taking care to keep ourselves by suitable establishments on a...temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies." He did not, could not, of course, foresee a distant time when the world had shrunk so far militarily... | |
 | Myres S Mac Dougal, William Michael Reisman - Law - 1985 - 490 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;...is unnecessary and would be unwise to extend them. This text, which has been reproduced so often, continues to fascinate me. In one sense, it is only... | |
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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... 
