| Sheila Suess Kennedy - 2007 - 257 páginas
...distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. . . . Why forgo the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand...ambition, rivalship, interest, humor or caprice?" (1997, 39). The new country would be able to make decisions free of the encumbrances of treaties and... | |
| M. Kent Bolton - 2008 - 452 páginas
...ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities . . . Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand...European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor or caprice? 2 President John Quincy Adams, America's sixth president (1825-1829), neatly captured Washington's... | |
| William H. Overholt - 2007 - 366 páginas
...publication (see William H. Overholt, "The Rise of the Pacific Basin," Pacific Community, July 1974). 1 "Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why,...rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice? It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world." (George Washington,... | |
| Patrick J. Buchanan - 2007 - 316 páginas
...possible." Pointing to America's distance from Europe, Washington implored us, 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? Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent Alliances, with any portion of... | |
| Frank Walzel - 2007 - 86 páginas
...außereuropäischen Mächten einzugehen, da man sich nur in europäischen Streitereien verstricke: „Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any...rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice? It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world (. . .)." Dieses... | |
| Robert G. Kaufman - 2007 - 263 páginas
...shall counsel... . Why forgo the advantages of so peculiar a situation? —Why quit our own to stand on foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with...European ambition, Rivalship, Interest, Humor or Caprice? 'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances, with any portion of the foreign world.... | |
| Harold E. Stearns - 2007 - 620 páginas
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| David S. Kidder, Noah D. Oppenheim - 2007 - 392 páginas
...tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people to surrender their interests . . . Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any...ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice? Washington's clarion call to avoid foreign entanglements reflected, and helped to shape, an enduring... | |
| Michael Schmid - 2007 - 28 páginas
...detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course [from Europe]" and asks "Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any...European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice?"2 Thomas Jefferson agreed with Washington's assessment and as secretary of state (1792) he... | |
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