 | Matthew Spalding, Patrick J. Garrity - 1996 - 244 páginas
...recall again Washington's articulation in the Farewell Address of the advantages of self-sufficiency: If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may... | |
 | Eric Nordlinger - 1996 - 346 páginas
...can well afford to remain disengaged. America can "defy material injury from external annoyance" and "cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected." Washington did not expect that belligerent states would somehow be in short supply, but... | |
 | Daniel C. Palm - 1997 - 230 páginas
...artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities: Our detached and distant...we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not... | |
 | Richard C. Sinopoli - 1996 - 456 páginas
...dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people, to surrender their interests. [Text omitted] Our detached and distant situation invites and enables...we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not... | |
 | Scott L. Bills, E. Timothy Smith - 1997 - 348 páginas
...said, "Europe has a set of primary interests, which to us have none, or a very remote relation. . . . Under an efficient government, the period is not far...injury from external annoyance; . . . when we may choose peace or war, as our interest guided by justice shall counsel."" Seen in this light, Clinton's... | |
 | Walter A. McDougall - 1997 - 316 páginas
...counsel, to take refuge in the protection of Pharaoh, and to seek thelter in the shadow of Egypt!"' Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. . . . Why forego the advantages of so pecuhar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground?... | |
 | George Washington - 1998 - 40 páginas
...artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities. Our detached and distant...and enables us to pursue a different course. If we re[26] main one people under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy material... | |
 | Henry Flanders - 1999 - 314 páginas
...in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the APPENDIX. ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities. Our detached and distant...the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon, to he scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions... | |
 | Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, Stephen J. McKenna - 1999 - 978 páginas
...collisions of her friendships and enmities. Our detached and distant situation invites and enahles us to pursue a different course. If we remain one...the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon, to he scrupulously respected; when helligerent nations, under the impossihility of making acquisitions... | |
 | David Ryan - 2000 - 640 páginas
...isolationism. Washington's farewell (1796) expressed the sentiment of separation from the Old World: 'Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course.' Jefferson's inaugural captured the intention in a much more quotable form: 'peace. commerce and honest... | |
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Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence therefore it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves, by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the... 
