 | John Richard Alden - 1984 - 356 ページ
...with France. Its provisions should be observed "in their genuine sense." For the future, "taking care to keep ourselves by suitable establishments on a...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 ページ
...to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine...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... | |
 | Thomas H. Buckley, Edwin B. Strong - 1987 - 228 ページ
...peculiar a situation? ... lt is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances. . . . Taking care to keep ourselves by suitable establishments on a...temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies, [emphasis supplied by authors] Contrary to popular myth, nowhere did Washington use the word "isolation"... | |
 | Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, Kathleen Hall Jamieson - 1990 - 285 ページ
...it; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. . . . [L]et those engagements be observed in their genuine...is unnecessary and would be unwise to extend them. 53 Two metaphorical patterns support this vision of the Union. On the one hand, it is an organism.... | |
 | Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, Kathleen Hall Jamieson - 1990 - 285 ページ
...it; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. . . . [L]et those engagements be observed in their genuine...opinion it is unnecessary and would be unwise to extend them.53 Two metaphorical patterns support this vision of the Union. On the one hand, it is an organism.... | |
 | Various - 1994 - 676 ページ
...to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine...alliances for extraordinary emergencies. Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest. But even our... | |
 | 1898 - 428 ページ
...its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people, to surrender their interests. Harmony, and a liberal intercourse with all nations,...are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest. —George Washington. How true it is that the union of nations is the main prop to our liberty. Excessive... | |
 | Harry G. Summers - 1995 - 280 ページ
...It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world. Taking care always to keep ourselves by suitable establishments...posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances or extraordinary emergencies. . . . The nation which indulges toward another an habitual hatred or... | |
 | Eugene V. Rostow - 1995 - 420 ページ
...committed and should remain faithful, in its "genuine sense." But it would be unwise to extend that policy: "Taking care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, on a respectable defensive pos7. These quotations and those which follow are taken from Washington's final manuscript of his Farewell... | |
 | Anders Breidlid - 1996 - 432 ページ
...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...alliances for extraordinary emergencies. Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest. But even our... | |
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... so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it; for let me not be understood as capable of 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... 
