| United States. President - 1842 - 794 pages
...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 on foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our... | |
| Samuel Farmer Wilson - 1843 - 452 pages
...provocations ; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation?...ambition, rivalship, interest, humour, or caprice ? It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances, with any portion of the foreign world... | |
| John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 pages
...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 ? 'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of... | |
| John Hanbury Dwyer - 1844 - 318 pages
...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 ? 'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of... | |
| Rhode Island - 1844 - 612 pages
...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 ? 'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the... | |
| M. Sears - 1844 - 596 pages
...private affairs, that honesty is always the best Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation 1 Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why,...the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice? remove every colorable pretence of complaint; if an intention to pursue by amicable... | |
| M. Sears - 1844 - 582 pages
...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 ?...interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Enrope, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor,... | |
| 1844 - 468 pages
...terest, guided by justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a ' i nn I i. in ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why,...interweaving our' destiny with that of any part of Europe, en- • tangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of '• European ambition, rivalship, interest,... | |
| John Hanbury Dwyer - 1845 - 492 pages
...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 ? "Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of... | |
| Levi Carroll Judson - 1846 - 334 pages
...provocation ; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided hy justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ?...ambition, rivalship, interest, humour, or caprice. It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances, with any portion of the foreign world... | |
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