| Wardell Lindsay - 2006 - 24 páginas
...the applause and confidence of the people to surrender their interests. The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations ro have with them as little political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements... | |
| M. Kent Bolton - 2008 - 452 páginas
.... . . the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake. . . The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is in extending our...to have with them as little political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith... | |
| Edward F. Dolan - 2008 - 102 páginas
...nation's fourth president) and revised by Alexander Hamilton, he held that The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending...to have with them as little political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith.... | |
| John E. Hill - 2007 - 290 páginas
...was one of his concerns. He agreed with Adams on political alliances: The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our...to have with them as little political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith.... | |
| Patrick J. Buchanan - 2007 - 316 páginas
...Washington had laid down the first commandment of US foreign policy. "The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is in extending...to have with them as little political connection as possible." Pointing to America's distance from Europe, Washington implored us, Why forego the advantages... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 2007 - 513 páginas
...of George Washington's farewell address, who in 1796 warned citizens, "The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending...to have with them as little political connection as possible." Franklin had said it more succinctly in 1778, nearly two decades earlier: "The system of... | |
| John Thomas Nall - 2007 - 258 páginas
...equally free, cannot live in the same government." ~ Thomas Jefferson •"The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations is in extending our commercial relations to them with as little political connection as possible ..." — First President of the USA, George Washington,... | |
| Tom Lansford, Thomas E. Woods, Jr. - 2007 - 120 páginas
...observance— long determined the conduct ofU.S commercial and foreign policy. The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign, nations is, in extending...to have with them as little political connection as possible. So far as we have already < 'formed engagements let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith.... | |
| Mark McNeilly - 2008 - 224 páginas
...and to build a strong defense. By following Washington's advice that "the great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is in extending our...to have with them as little political connection as possible," the United States would be free to set its own course. Washington then ended the Farewell... | |
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