 | 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... | |
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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... 
