 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...  American Historical Documents: 1000-1904 - Page 263edited by - 1910 - 491 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Washington - Presidents - 1800 - 240 pages
...far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfecT: good faith. — Hert let us stop. EUROPE has a set of primary interests,...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... | |
 | George Washington - Presidents - 1800 - 232 pages
...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 attitude...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... | |
 | William Cobbett - United States - 1801 - 586 pages
...neutrality, we may at any tim.e resolve upon, to be scrupulously respected ; when belligerent powers, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon...may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. " Why forego the advantages of such a peculiar situation ? Why quit our own... | |
 | 1802 - 440 pages
...second the arts of influence on the other. Real patriots, who may resist the intrigues of the favorite, are liable to become suspected and odious ; while...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... | |
 | John Taylor - Jefferson, Thomas - 1804 - 148 pages
...attitude as will cause the neutrality, we may at any time resolve upon, to be scrupulously respecled ; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility...may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. "Why forego the advantages of so peculiars situation ? Why quit our own to... | |
 | Richard Snowden - America - 1805 - 398 pages
...ourselves, by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations or collisions of her friendships, or enmities. Our detached...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... | |
 | United States. President - Presidents - 1805 - 276 pages
...attitude as will cause the neutrality, we may at any time resolve upon, to be scrupulously respect* ed ; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility...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... | |
 | Richard Snowden - America - 1806 - 392 pages
...may take such .-.ri attiuvje as will c-.-ise th* neutrality, we may at any iime resolve upon, to bt 'scrupulously respected ; when belligerent nations,...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... | |
 | John Marshall - 1807 - 840 pages
...external annoyance ; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at anytime resolve upon, to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent...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... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1808 - 584 pages
...nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connexion as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements,...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... | |
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