 | George Washington - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 142 pages
...an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest. Farewell Address, Philadelphia, September 19, 1796 'Tis folly in one nation to look for disinterested... | |
 | Jim F. Watts, Fred L. Israel - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 416 pages
...an habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from...envenomed, and bloody contests. The nation prompted by ill will and resentment sometimes impels to war the government contrary to the best calculations of... | |
 | David Brion Davis, Steven Mintz - History - 1998 - 607 pages
...an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest — Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence... the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly... | |
 | E. Robert Statham - History - 2002 - 176 pages
...an habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest. . . . The government sometimes participates in national propensity, and adopts through passions what... | |
 | Gleaves Whitney - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 496 pages
...a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from...prompted by ill-will and resentment, sometimes impels to war the government, contrary to the best calculations of policy. The government sometimes participates... | |
 | Raymond Aron - Philosophy - 2009 - 550 pages
...an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest. Not to get involved In quarrels between European states—that was good advice to a young republic... | |
 | Michael Waldman - 363 pages
...an habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from...accidental or trifling occasions of dispute occur — As avenues to foreign influence in innumerable ways. DJ such attachments are particularly alarming... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - Political Science - 2003 - 758 pages
...an habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.' The political conduct of Washington was always guided by these maxims. He succeeded in maintaining... | |
 | Richard Stewart Kirkendall - Electronic books - 2004 - 399 pages
..."just and amicable feelings towards all" nations. "Antipathy in one nation against another," he warned, "disposes each more readily to offer insult and injury, to lay hold of slight causes of umbrage, and 21. On Truman's earlier articulation of these ideas, see Hamby, "Truman and the Origins of the Truman... | |
 | James Walsh - Art - 2004 - 353 pages
...a habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection Antipathy in one nation against another disposes each more readily to offer insult and injury...and to be haughty and intractable when accidental or trifling occasions of dispute occur.... | |
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The nation which indulges towards another an habitual hatred or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest. Antipathy... 
