 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1851 - 954 էջ
...government, the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality...time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected ; when belligerant nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton - 1851 - 904 էջ
...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 felicitous a situation? Why quit our own ground... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton - 1851 - 946 էջ
...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 felicitous a situation? Why quit our own ground... | |
 | Sir John Winthrop Hackett - 1986 - 72 էջ
...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... | |
 | Sir John Hackett - 1986 - 60 էջ
...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... | |
 | 1906 - 698 էջ
...off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude us will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon, to be scrupulously respected; when heiligeren t nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, \vi.l not lightly hazard... | |
 | Various - 1994 - 676 էջ
...government, the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality,...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... | |
 | Alfred W. Crosby - 1993 - 236 էջ
...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... | |
 | Stanley M. Elkins, Eric McKitrick - 1995 - 952 էջ
...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"... | |
 | Eugene V. Rostow - 1995 - 420 էջ
...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... | |
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Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an... 
