 | William Hickey - 1851 - 588 pages
...at liberty to do it ; for let me not be understood as capable of patronising infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to...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 is... | |
 | William Hickey - Constitutional history - 1851 - 580 pages
...at liberty to do it ; for let me not be understood as capable of patronising infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to...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 is... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1851 - 954 pages
...understood as capable of pati snising infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no i, \ess applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in (heir genuine sense ; but in my opinion it is unnecessary,... | |
 | George Washington - 1852 - 76 pages
...at liberty to do it; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is the best policy. I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense.... | |
 | Presidents - 1853 - 514 pages
...at liberty to do it; for let me not be understood as capable of patronising infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to...that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat, theiefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But in my opinion, it is unnecessary,... | |
 | William Hickey - Constitutional history - 1853 - 594 pages
...at liberty to do it ; for let me not be understood as capable of patronising infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to...public than to private affairs, that honesty is always tne best policy. I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense.... | |
 | William Hickey - Constitutional history - 1853 - 604 pages
...at liberty to do it ; for let me not be understood as capable of patronising infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to...public than to private affairs, that honesty is always we best policy. I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But,... | |
 | William L. Hickey - Constitutional history - 1853 - 588 pages
...applicable to 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... | |
 | Joseph Bartlett Burleigh - Parliamentary practice - 1853 - 354 pages
...liberty to do it — for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to [existing]100 engagements, ([I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs],101 that honesty is [always]10" the best policy.) — [I repeat it therefore let those engagements]... | |
 | William Hickey - Constitutional history - 1854 - 580 pages
...less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always me best policy. I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their...is unnecessary, and would be unwise to extend them, Taking1 care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, on a respectable defensive posture,... | |
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It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with 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 to existing engagements. I hold the... 
