 | Jim F. Watts, Fred L. Israel - 2000 - 416 páginas
...us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation?...the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice? It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - 2000 - 662 páginas
...us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation?...the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice? . . . Though in reviewing the incidents of my administration I am unconscious of... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 2000 - 804 páginas
...provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. "Why forgo the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit...the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice? "It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of... | |
 | Bill Grantham - 2000 - 198 páginas
...United States were determined not to be European. "Why," George Washington said in his farewell address, "by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity to the toils of European Ambition, Rivalship, Interest, Humour or Caprice?"* Washington, a politician... | |
 | John V. Denson - 2001 - 830 páginas
...government, the period is not far off, when we may defy material injury from external annoyance. . . . Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground.29 Here Washington adopts the much maligned Fortress America stance so derided by critics of... | |
 | Ivan Eland - 2001 - 258 páginas
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 | Frank E. Grizzard - 2002 - 472 páginas
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 | Andrew S. Weeks - 2002 - 216 páginas
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 | 2002 - 328 páginas
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Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest,... 
