 | Various - 1994 - 676 pages
...government, the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality,...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... | |
 | Matthew Spalding, Patrick J. Garrity - 1996 - 244 pages
...government, the period is not far off, when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality...provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by our justice shall Counsel. 38. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation?... | |
 | Anders Breidlid, Fredrik C. Brøgger, Oyvind T. Gulliksen, Torbjorn Sirevag - 1996 - 428 pages
...government, the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality...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;-... | |
 | Eric Nordlinger - 1996 - 346 pages
...can well afford to remain disengaged. America can "defy material injury from external annoyance" and "cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected." Washington did not expect that belligerent states would somehow be in short supply, but "under the... | |
 | Daniel C. Palm - 1997 - 230 pages
...government, the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality...provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by our justice shall Counsel. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation?... | |
 | Richard C. Sinopoli - 1996 - 456 pages
...government, the period is not far off, when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality...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... | |
 | Walter A. McDougall - 1997 - 316 pages
...government, the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality...time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belhgerent nations, under the impossibihty of making acquisitions upon us, will not hghtly hazard the... | |
 | George Washington - 1998 - 40 pages
...government, the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality...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... | |
 | Bernard De Voto - 1998 - 694 pages
...just twelve years old. On September 17 1796 George Washington had said, "The period is not far off ... when belligerent nations, under the impossibility...will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation." He went on to ask the question which down to this day has lowered like a thunderhead whenever the nation... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1999 - 374 pages
...government, the period is not far off, when we may defy material injury from external annoyance ; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality,...will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation ; wher we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided bj justice, shall counsel. Why forego the... | |
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OUR detached and distant situation, invites and enables us to pursue a different course. If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off, when we may defy material injury from external annoyance ; when we may take such... 
