Taking care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, on a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies. Harmony, and a liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy,... Handbook of the Administrations of the United States - Page 20by Edward Griffin Tileston - 1871 - 222 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Hickey - Constitutional history - 1851 - 580 pages
...respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies. Harmony, and a liberal intercourse with all nations,...means, the streams of commerce, but forcing nothing ; establishing, with powers so disposed, in order to give trade a stable course, to define the rights... | |
| United States, William Hickey - Constitutional history - 1851 - 616 pages
...respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies. Harmony, and a liberal intercourse with all nations,...means, the streams of commerce, but forcing nothing; establishing, with powers so disposed, in order to give trade a stable course, to define the rights... | |
| Alexander Hamilton - Finance - 1851 - 908 pages
...recommended by justice, humanity, and interest. But even our commercial policy should hold an equal hand, neither seeking nor granting exclusive favors...means the streams of commerce, but forcing nothing — establishing with powers so disposedf temporary^ rules of intercourse, the best that present circumstances... | |
| William Hickey - 1851 - 588 pages
...respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies. Harmony, and a liberal intercourse with all nations,...recommended by policy, humanity, and interest. But even oa,i_jBota> mercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand ; neither seeking nor granting exclusive... | |
| Alexander Hamilton - 1851 - 946 pages
...genuine sense.* Harmony, liberal intercourse, and commerce with all nations, are recommended by justice, humanity, and interest. But even our commercial policy should hold an equal hand, neither seeking nor granting exclusive favors or preferences — consulting the natural course... | |
| George Washington - 1852 - 76 pages
...defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies. Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended...means, the streams of commerce, but forcing nothing ; establishing, with powers so disposed, in order to give trade a stable course, to define the rights... | |
| Commerce - 1852 - 780 pages
...distinction." In his farewell address, Washington offered opinions encouraging to trade, maintaining that "harmony and a liberal intercourse with all nations,...are recommended by policy, humanity and interest." Diffuse and diversify, by gentle means, the streams of Commerce, recommended the patriot, by giving... | |
| Lewis C. Munn - Autographs - 1853 - 450 pages
...respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies. Harmony, and a liberal intercourse with all nations,...means, the streams of commerce, "but forcing nothing ; establishing, with powers so disposed, in order to give trade a stable course, to define the rights... | |
| Presidents - 1853 - 514 pages
...respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies. Harmony, and a liberal intercourse with all nations,...things ; diffusing and diversifying by gentle means the stream of commerce, but forcing nothing; establishing with powers so disposed, in order to give trade... | |
| Joseph Bartlett Burleigh - Parliamentary practice - 1853 - 354 pages
...defensive posture, we may safely trust to [temporary]104 alliances for extraordinary emergencies. Harmony, liberal intercourse with all Nations, are recommended...hand : — neither seeking nor granting exclusive favours or preferences; — consulting the natural course of things ; — diffusing and diversifying... | |
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