...remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off, when we may defy materia injury from external annoyance ; when we may take...acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving !l 1796-9.] LIFE OF WASHINGTON. 187 us provocation ; when we may choose peace or war is our interest,...

...attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon, to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations under the impossibility of...or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall niunsel. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign...

...Republican Government But that jealousy, to be useful, must ightly hazard the giving us provocations ; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest,...peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon r foreign ground 1 Why, by interweaving our < destiny with that of any part of Europe, eu-< :angle...

...attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected ; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility...provocation ; when we may choose peace or war as our interests, guided by justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ?...

...attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon, to be scrupulously respected ; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility...situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground 1 Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity...

...attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected ; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility...peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own, to stand on foreign ground ? Why, hy interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our...

...attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon, to be scrupulously respected ; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility...as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. Europe has a set of primary interests, which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence she...

...attitude, as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon, to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility...as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. 28. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground?...

...acquisitions upon us to be very careful how either forced us to throw our weight into the opposite scale — when we may choose peace or war as our interest guided by justice shall dictate. Why should we forego the advantages of so ha felicitous a situaForeign tion? Why should we...

...attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility...as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel." In an important sense, the Monroe Doctrine represents the cap stone for nineteenth century American...