 Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest,...  Annual Register of World Events - 302 ページ1807全文表示 - この書籍について
 | William Safire - 2008 - 888 ページ
...clear of permanent alliance with any portion of the foreign world." In the same speech he also said: "Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice?" Two years... | |
 | Strobe Talbott - 2008 - 505 ページ
...nations was disinclined, as George Washington put it in his farewell address of 1796, to "interweav[e] our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice." Instead,... | |
 | Margaret MacMillan - 2008 - 443 ページ
...1796, George Washington famously warned against "the insidious wiles of foreign influence" and asked, "Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, en tangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or... | |
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