...repugnant. Washington in his farewell address at Fraunces' Tavern advised that the nation should be able to "choose peace or war as our interest guided by justice shall counsel." But the last chance of the development of any significant degree of military professionalism in America...

...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. [...] It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world;...

...principles would, he assured his fellow countrymen of a still fragile and beleaguered nation, lead to a time "when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel." Four years later Thomas Jefferson, as he became the third President of a new nation which had not yet...

...repugnant. Washington in his farewell address at Fraunces' Tavern advised that the nation should be able to "choose peace or war as our interest guided by justice shall counsel." But the last chance of the development of any significant degree of military professionalism in Anerica...

...repugnant. Washington in his farewell address at Fraunces' Tavern advised that the nation should be able to "choose peace or war as our interest guided by justice shall counsel." But the last chance of the development of any significant degree of military professionalism in America...

...respected; when heiligeren t nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, \vi.l not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when...as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. PARTING COUNSELS. 1ц offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend,...

...anticipatory boasts: "the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance . . . when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel."33 The census of 1800 confirmed Franklin's half-century-old estimation of the doubling rate...

...its institutions and acquire the strength to command its own fortunes. The period "is not far off ... when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel."10 So the Farewell Address cannot be construed, except in the most tortured sense, as an "isolationist"...

...enough to "defy material injury from external annoyance," insist on respect for our neutrality, and "choose peace or war, as our interest guided by justice shall counsel." He continued, "Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? — Why quit our own to stand...

...attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility...may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by our justice shall Counsel.75 The dictates of justice in international affairs, as Washington understood...