 | Aaron Bancroft - 1808 - 604 sidor
...impossibility of making 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. " Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to staad upoa foreign ground... | |
 | John Corry - 1809 - 262 sidor
...impossibility of making 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. " Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? WlfJ|(|iut our own to stand upon foreign ground':... | |
 | Albert Picket - 1820 - 314 sidor
...impossibility of making 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. 37. It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances, with any portion of the foreign world... | |
 | Rhode Island - 1822 - 592 sidor
...impossibility of making 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. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own, to stand upon foreign ground... | |
 | Thomas Jones Rogers - 1823 - 382 sidor
...will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when 346 AMERICAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONAHY. we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation.' Why quit our OWH to stand upon foreign ground.'... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1825 - 742 sidor
...which it has become necessary, in order to obtain redress, that we must go into a foreign Congress, ' "to choose peace or war, as our interest», guided by justice, shall counsel ?" The President will say 1,0, they have not ; but they may make acquisitions on the territories of... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1826 - 844 sidor
...of making 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. " Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation' " Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - 1827 - 650 sidor
...own altars and firesides, to take an attitude which would cause our neutrality to be respected, and choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. The acceptance of this invita? jion therefore, far from conflicting with the counsel or the policy... | |
 | J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - 1828 - 314 sidor
...impossibility of making 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. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own, to stand upon foreign ground... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1832 - 378 sidor
...impossibility of making 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. 28. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground... | |
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... from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly... 
