| Edward Deering Mansfield - United States - 1836 - 304 pages
...our 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,...Europe, entangle our peace and pros-perity in the wils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humorj or caprice? It is our true policy to steer clear... | |
| John Marshall - Presidents - 1836 - 500 pages
...Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground 1 why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any...entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humour, or caprice? " It is our true policy to steer clear... | |
| Mason Locke Weems - 1837 - 246 pages
...justice, shall counsel. " WHT forego the advantages of so peculiar as : tuation ? Why quit our o-.vn, to stand upon foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving...entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humour, or caprice ? " 'Tis our true policy to steer clear... | |
| George Washington - United States - 1837 - 620 pages
...the advantages of so peculiar a situatioh ? \Vhy quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why, oy interweaving our destiny with that of any part of...entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice? It is our true policy to steer clear of... | |
| George Washington - 1838 - 114 pages
...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,...entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humour, or caprice ? It is our true policy to steer clear of... | |
| L. Carroll Judson - 1839 - 364 pages
...our 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,...entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humour, or caprice. It is our true policy to steer clear of... | |
| Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1839 - 500 pages
...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,...entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice? " It is our true policy to steer clear of... | |
| Joseph Story - Constitutional law - 1840 - 394 pages
...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,...entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice ? It is our true policy to steer clear of... | |
| Mason Locke Weems - Presidents - 1840 - 256 pages
...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,...entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humour, or caprice ? " 'Tis our true policy to steer clear... | |
| Arbitration (International law) - 1840 - 726 pages
...in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible. Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any...entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor or caprice?" But, it seems to us, that such a tribunal... | |
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