 | Jeffrey A. Lefebvre - Political Science - 1992 - 372 pages
...imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists" and lead the United States into "a participation in the quarrels and wars of...latter without adequate inducement or justification." Another inherent danger was posed by the "ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens [who devote themselves... | |
 | J. Weston Walch, Kate O'Halloran - Education - 1993 - 134 pages
...illusion of an imaginary common interest where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation...latter without adequate inducement or justification. . . . The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial... | |
 | Charles W. Freeman, Jr. - 1995 - 616 pages
...exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation hi the quarrels and wars of the latter, without adequate...ought to have been retained, and by exciting jealousy, ill will, and a disposition to retaliate in the parties from whom equal privileges are withheld; and... | |
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So, likewise, a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one... 
