 | Benson John Lossing - 1859 - 674 sidor
...impossibility of making acquisitions upon us. will not lightly huzard the giving us provocation ; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice; shall counsel. Why forego the advantage of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground?... | |
 | 1859 - 370 sidor
...impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not rightly 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... | |
 | J. T. Headley - 1859 - 528 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 advantage of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground?... | |
 | John Warner Barber - 1860 - 478 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?... | |
 | 1952 - 1232 sidor
...impossibility of making 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. . . . Taking care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishment*, in a respectable defensive... | |
 | Felix Gilbert - 1961 - 188 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... | |
 | Louis J. Mensonides, James A. Kuhlman - 1976 - 200 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." In an important sense, the Monroe Doctrine represents the cap stone for nineteenth century American... | |
 | George Edward Thibault - 1984 - 916 sidor
...constitution were opposed to it. "I am not acquainted with the military profession," said one of them.64 The constitution represented a liberal outlook to...significant degree of military professionalism in America for many years disappeared with the failure of the conservative federalism of Hamilton. Something... | |
 | Myres S Mac Dougal, William Michael Reisman - 1985 - 490 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. [...] It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world;... | |
 | Brewster C. Denny - 1985 - 218 sidor
...assured his fellow countrymen of a still fragile and beleaguered nation, lead to a time "when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel." Four years later Thomas Jefferson, as he became the third President of a new nation which had not yet... | |
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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... 
