 | Rhode Island - Law - 1844 - 612 pages
...will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation ; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantages...European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor or caprice ? 'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world;... | |
 | M. Sears - Statesmen - 1844 - 596 pages
...private affairs, that honesty is always the best Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation 1 Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why,...ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice? remove every colorable pretence of complaint; if an intention to pursue by amicable negotiation a reparation... | |
 | M. Sears - Statesmen - 1844 - 582 pages
...will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, 'as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantages...interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Enrope, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor,... | |
 | Almanacs, American - 1844 - 468 pages
...foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our' destiny with that of any part of Europe, en- • tangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of '• European...It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliancess with any portion of the foreign J world — so far, I mean, as we are now at liber- 5 ty... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1845 - 492 pages
...will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation ; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantages...European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice ? "Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world... | |
 | William Hickey - Constitutional history - 1846 - 396 pages
...will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel . Why forego the...portion of the foreign world ; so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it ; for let me not be understood as capable of patronising infidelity... | |
 | United States. President - Presidents - 1846 - 766 pages
...shall counsel. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand on foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny...any portion of the foreign world, so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it ; for let me not be understood as capable of patronising infidelity... | |
 | Levi Carroll Judson - Conduct of life - 1846 - 334 pages
...lightly hazard the giving us provocation ; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided hy justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantages...the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humour, or caprice. It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances, with any portion of... | |
 | Jonathan French - United States - 1847 - 506 pages
...will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantages...any portion of the foreign world ; so far I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it ; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity... | |
 | George Washington - United States - 1848 - 612 pages
...the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why, hy interweaving our destiny with that of any : part of...any portion of the foreign world; so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it ; for let me not be understood as capable of jiatronizing infidelity... | |
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Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest,... 
