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" Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake ; since history and experience prove, that foreign influence is one of the 'most baneful foes of... "
The History of North and South America, from Its Discovery to the Death of ... - Page 160
by Richard Snowden - 1805 - 362 pages
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New World Strategy: A Military Policy for America's Future

Harry G. Summers - History - 1995 - 280 pages
...participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without adequate inducement or justification. "Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens)," Washington concluded, "the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake." Those admonitions...
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The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution, 1785-1800

Conor Cruise O'Brien - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 390 pages
...Farewell Address. As regards party politics and international affairs the key words of the Address are: "Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow citizens), the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake. . . . Excessive partiality...
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USA und Mittelamerika: die Aussenpolitik von William J. Bryan, 1913-1915

Ralph Dietl - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 500 pages
...Warnung George Washingtons an seine Mitbürger vom 17.6.1796 (Washington's Farewell Address) bestimmt: "against the insidious wiles of foreign influence I conjure you to believe me, fellow citizens the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience...
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A Sacred Union of Citizens: George Washington's Farewell Address and the ...

Matthew Spalding, Patrick J. Garrity - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 244 pages
...weak, towards a great and powerful Nation, dooms the former to be the satellite of the latter. 34. Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, (I conjure you to believe me, fellow citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake; since history and experience...
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The Costs of War: America's Pyrrhic Victories

John V. Denson - History - 1997 - 494 pages
...partisanship as a factor in American politics, and the growing rivalry between the two camps. Thus he warned against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I...influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.5 While proponents of non-interventionism have traditionally invoked Washington's words...
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From Many, One: Readings in American Political and Social Thought

Richard C. Sinopoli - Political Science - 1996 - 456 pages
...quarrels and Wars of the latter, without adequate inducement or justification. . . . [Text omitted] Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, (I conjure you to believe me fellow citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake; since history and experience...
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Promised Land, Crusader State: The American Encounter with the World Since 1776

Walter A. McDougall - Fiction - 1997 - 316 pages
...indulges toward another an habitual hatred or an habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. . . . Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow- citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience...
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On Faith and Free Government

Daniel C. Palm - Political Science - 1997 - 230 pages
...small or weak, towards a great and powerful Nation, dooms the former to be the satellite of the latter. Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience...
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Sentimental Bodies: Sex, Gender, and Citizenship in the Early Republic

Bruce Burgett - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 222 pages
...knowfmg] little of the real plan."44 "Against the wiles of foreign influence," the "Address" warns, ". . . the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly...foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of Bepublican Government" (15), If citizens fail — as they inevitably will — to remain "constantly...
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What America Owes the World: The Struggle for the Soul of Foreign Policy

H. W. Brands - History - 1998 - 356 pages
...disqualify America in the eyes of that power's rivals. More perniciously, it would corrupt the example. "History and experience prove that foreign influence...of the most baneful foes of republican government." Entanglement abroad inflamed faction at home. "Excessive partiality for one foreign nation and excessive...
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