 | John Marshall - 1836 - 500 pages
...patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best...always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, on a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies.... | |
 | Edward Deering Mansfield - 1836 - 304 pages
...patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less- applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best...opinion, it is unnecessary, and would be unwise, to wtend them. Taking care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, on » respectable defensive... | |
 | Mason Locke Weems - 1837 - 246 pages
...patronising infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs. that honesty is always the best...alliances for extraordinary emergencies. ** HARMONY, and a liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and iivterest. But... | |
 | George Washington - 1837 - 620 pages
...patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best...always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, on a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies.... | |
 | George Washington - 1838 - 114 pages
...patronising infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to publick than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best...always to keep ourselves, by suitable Establishments, on a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies.... | |
 | L. Carroll Judson - 1839 - 376 pages
...patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best...temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies. Harmony and a liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity and interest. But even... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1839 - 500 pages
...patronizing infid«lity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best...temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies." In a previous part of the same letter, Washington makes the following admirable and just remark : "... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1840 - 394 pages
...patronising infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best...always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, on a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances, for extraordinary emergencies.... | |
 | 1840 - 128 pages
...patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But in my opinion, it is unnecessary,... | |
 | 1841 - 460 pages
...patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But in my opinion, it is unnecessary,... | |
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It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world; so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidel-ity to existing engagements. 
