 | Henry Winter Davis - 1852 - 456 pages
...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...always to keep ourselves by suitable establishments on a respectable defensive posture we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies."... | |
 | George Washington - 1852 - 76 pages
...engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is the best policy. I repeat it, therefore, let those...unnecessary, and would be unwise, to extend them* 6 fur faf)tg fyalten, Untrenc gegen befietyenbe SBerbinb* Itcl)feiten in @rf)u& ju nefymem 3rf) I)alte... | |
 | Henry Winter Davis - 1852 - 466 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 policy. I repeat therefore let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But in my opinion it is unnecessary... | |
 | Lewis C. Munn - 1853 - 450 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.... | |
 | William Hickey - 1853 - 594 pages
...engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always tne best policy. I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements...always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, on a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies.... | |
 | Joseph Bartlett Burleigh - 1853 - 354 pages
...that honesty is [always]10" the best policy.) — [I repeat it therefore let those engagements] l03 be observed in their genuine sense. — But in my...always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, on a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to [temporary]104 alliances for extraordinary... | |
 | William Hickey - 1853 - 604 pages
...engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always we best policy. I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements...in their genuine sense. But, in my opinion, it is minicessary, and would be unwise to extend them. Taking care always to keep ourselves, by suitable... | |
 | 1980 - 272 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... | |
 | John Richard Alden - 1984 - 356 pages
...their genuine sense." For the future, "taking care to keep ourselves by suitable establishments on a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust...temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies." He did not, could not, of course, foresee a distant time when the world had shrunk so far militarily... | |
 | Myres S Mac Dougal, William Michael Reisman - 1985 - 490 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...is unnecessary and would be unwise to extend them. This text, which has been reproduced so often, continues to fascinate me. In one sense, it is only... | |
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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. 
