 | Gleaves Whitney - 2003 - 496 páginas
...acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel....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... | |
 | Nau Nihal Singh - 2002 - 232 páginas
...exclaimed George Washington in his Farewell Address, "forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation?... Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any...the toils of European Ambition, Rivalship, Interest, Humor Caprice?"10 In strictly objective terms these references to Europe were churlish and unfounded.... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 2003 - 758 páginas
...acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel....ambition, rivalship, interest, humour, or caprice? It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world;... | |
 | Michael Waldman - 363 páginas
...will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our inter' est, guided by justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantages...the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice? i < 7 hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs that honesty... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 2003 - 868 páginas
...hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided byjustice, shall counsel. "Why forego the advantages of so peculiar...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... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 2003 - 996 páginas
...and that, being chosen by the legislature of each state, they are the result of a two-stage election. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation?...the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor or caprice? Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances, with any portion of the... | |
 | Michael Hirsh - 2003 - 312 páginas
...exceptionalist mistrust about the rest of the world— especially Europe, about which George Washington warned: "Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any...the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice?" The outside world, in other words, would only contaminate and corrupt our grand... | |
 | Princeton Review (Firm) - 2003 - 303 páginas
.... . . Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. . . . Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any...the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice [whim]? It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 2004 - 960 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? 'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the... | |
 | Jay Shafritz - 2004 - 319 páginas
...George Washington, in his Farewell Address, September 17, 1796, advocated a policy of isolationism: "Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why,...the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor or caprice?" Washington's comment is revealing because isolationism has always been directed... | |
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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,... 
