 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1857 - 702 pages
...when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon, to be scrupulously respected : when belligerent nations,...provocation ; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantage of so peculiar a situation ? Why... | |
 | Mason Locke Weems - Biography & Autobiography - 1962 - 296 pages
...we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality , we may at any time resolve upon, to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations,...provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. "Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation?... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1864 - 696 pages
...scrupulously respected ; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions from us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation...so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand on foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace... | |
 | Felix Gilbert - Biography & Autobiography - 1961 - 188 pages
...when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; — when belligerent nations,...provocation; — when we may choose peace or war, as our interest guided by justice shall counsel. — Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation?... | |
 | Louis J. Mensonides, James A. Kuhlman - Law - 1976 - 200 pages
...when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations,...provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel." In an important sense, the Monroe Doctrine represents... | |
 | Myres S Mac Dougal, William Michael Reisman - Law - 1985 - 490 pages
...when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations,...provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. [...] It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent... | |
 | Various - History - 1994 - 676 pages
...when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality, we may at any time resolve upon, to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations,...provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why... | |
 | Anders Breidlid - Art - 1996 - 432 pages
...when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations,...provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why... | |
 | Matthew Spalding, Patrick J. Garrity - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 244 pages
...when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations,...provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by our justice shall Counsel." Washington had earlier phrased this object to Gouverneur... | |
 | Daniel C. Palm - Political Science - 1997 - 230 pages
...when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations,...provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by our justice shall Counsel. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation?... | |
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If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off, when we may defy material injury from external annoyance ; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon, to be scrupulously... 
