 | William Hickey - 1851 - 580 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... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1851 - 954 páginas
...artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities. " Our detached and...we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected ; when belligerant nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will... | |
 | William Hickey - 1851 - 588 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... | |
 | Joshua Muravchik - 1992 - 284 páginas
...benefits of America's geographic isolation to keep the country safe and free from Europe's broils. "Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course," said Washington. "Why forgo the advantages of so peculiar a situation?" By isolating itself from European... | |
 | J. Weston Walch, Kate O'Halloran - 1993 - 134 páginas
...have already formed engagements let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop. . . . Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. . . . Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign... | |
 | Various - 1994 - 676 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... | |
 | Alfred W. Crosby - 1993 - 236 páginas
...Washington to include in his Farewell Address one of those peculiarly American 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... | |
 | Jürgen Elvert, Michael Salewski - 1993 - 356 páginas
...engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns (...) Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course (...) Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation?"4 In 1823 President James Monroe and Secretary... | |
 | Henry Kissinger - 1994 - 920 páginas
...in the ordinary vicissitudes of her [European] politics, or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities. Our detached and distant...situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course.5 The new nation did not treat Washington's advice as a practical, geopolitical judgment but... | |
 | Anders Breidlid - 1996 - 432 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... | |
| |
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... 
