 | Matthew Spalding, Patrick J. Garrity - 1996 - 244 páginas
...choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by our justice shall Counsel. 38. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand...the toils of European Ambition, Rivalship, Interest, Humour or Caprice? 39. 'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent Alliances, with any portion... | |
 | Andy Williams - 1998 - 230 páginas
...States out of foreign affairs. As he departed the presidency, Washington clearly articulated this view. 'Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why...ambition, rivalship, interest, humor or caprice?' Of course, it was not possible to stay apart from the rest of the world, although the policy of isolationism... | |
 | Bernard De Voto, Bernard Augustine De Voto - 1998 - 694 páginas
...question which down to this day has lowered like a thunderhead whenever the nation has come in peril, "Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any...ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice?" Always when that cloud has gathered it has been dispelled by the same inexorability that faced Tefferson... | |
 | Richard N. Rosenfeld - 1998 - 1012 páginas
...conscience from its honesty?" Washington's Farewell Address asks, "Wliy, by interweaving our destiny with any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity...European ambition, rivalship, interest humor or caprice? 'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances •with any portion of the foreign world... | |
 | Douglas Brinkley - 1999 - 650 páginas
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 | Jim F. Watts, Fred L. Israel - 2000 - 416 páginas
...may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand...rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice? It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world, so far, I... | |
 | Patrick J. Buchanan - 1999 - 466 páginas
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 | Elmer Plischke - 1999 - 814 páginas
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 | Abba Eban - 1998 - 204 páginas
...George Washington in his Farewell Address, “forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation?. . . Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any...Ambition, Rivalship, Interest, Humor or Caprice?” 0 In strictly objective terms these references to Europe were churlish and unfounded. America was able... | |
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Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest,... 
