 | HORACE GREELEY - 1865 - 670 էջ
...the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is the best policy. I repeat, therefore, let those engagements be observed...is unnecessary and would be unwise to extend them." No decided — at least no avowed — departure from this policy had occurred down to 1823, when President... | |
 | Horace Greeley - 1865 - 704 էջ
...tho maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is the best policy. I repeat, therefore, let those engagements be observed...is unnecessary and would be unwise to extend them." No decided — at least no avowed — departure from this policy had occurred down to 1823, when President... | |
 | 1868 - 422 էջ
...applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their...recommended by policy, humanity, and interest. But even onr commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand ; neither seeking nor granting exclusive... | |
 | James M. Hiatt - 1868 - 426 էջ
...applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their...is unnecessary, and would be unwise to extend them. Harmony and a liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.... | |
 | Felix Gilbert - 1961 - 188 էջ
...applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy) — I repeat it therefore, let those engagements be observed in their...to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, on a respectably defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies.... | |
 | 1980 - 272 էջ
...maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat, therefore, let those engagements be observed...opinion it is unnecessary and would be unwise to extend them.88 Washington thus developed beyond the earlier intimations of Jefferson, principles which underlay... | |
 | John Richard Alden - 1984 - 356 էջ
...with France. Its provisions should be observed "in their genuine sense." For the future, "taking care to keep ourselves by suitable establishments on a...temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies." He did not, could not, of course, foresee a distant time when the world had shrunk so far militarily... | |
 | Myres S Mac Dougal, William Michael Reisman - 1985 - 490 էջ
...applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their...is unnecessary and would be unwise to extend them. This text, which has been reproduced so often, continues to fascinate me. In one sense, it is only... | |
 | Thomas H. Buckley, Edwin B. Strong - 1987 - 228 էջ
...peculiar a situation? ... lt is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances. . . . Taking care to keep ourselves by suitable establishments on a...temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies, [emphasis supplied by authors] Contrary to popular myth, nowhere did Washington use the word "isolation"... | |
 | Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, Kathleen Hall Jamieson - 1990 - 285 էջ
...it; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. . . . [L]et those engagements be observed in their genuine...is unnecessary and would be unwise to extend them. 53 Two metaphorical patterns support this vision of the Union. On the one hand, it is an organism.... | |
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... any portion of the foreign world ; so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs,... 
