...relations to have with them as little political connection as possible.... 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 the...

...issued a warning about future entanglements with other countries. He asked, "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?" 59 Yet, more than two hundred years later, our nation's courts, with the assistance...

...extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible. . . . Why by interweaving our destiny with that of any part...rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice? It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world. Thomas Jefferson,...

...late editor of Atlantic Monthly, observed. "Why," asked George Washington, in his Farewell Address, "by interweaving our destiny with that of any part...ambition, rivalship, interest, humor or caprice?" For millions of Americans, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Europe was the place you escaped...

...father and first President of the United States, George Washington, had stated in his farewell address, "Why by interweaving our destiny with that of any...the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humour or caprice?" From the fledgling start of the United States, an effort was made to try and remain...

...the young republic. ‘Why,' George Washington asked in his Farewell Address on September 17, 1796, ‘by interweaving our destiny with that of any part...and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalry, interest, humor or caprice?' He promptly answered his rhetorical question: ‘It is our true...

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...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 mean,...

...distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course . . . Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand...and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rival ship, interest, humor or caprice?" He concluded: "It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent...

...sides to republics is that they afford too easy an inlet to foreign corruption." Federalist 22. 1 17. "Why. by interweaving our destiny with that of any...ambition. rivalship. interest. humor or caprice?" Washington. "Farewell Address." in Richardson. Messages. 1:215. "[ P|cace. commerce. and honest friendship...