 | Samuel Farmer Wilson - United States - 1843 - 452 pages
...provocations ; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation?...ambition, rivalship, interest, humour, or caprice ? It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances, with any portion of the foreign world... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 pages
...us 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...the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice ? 'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1844 - 318 pages
...us 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...the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice ? 'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of... | |
 | Rhode Island - Law - 1844 - 612 pages
...us 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?...the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor or caprice ? 'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the... | |
 | M. Sears - Statesmen - 1844 - 596 pages
...private affairs, that honesty is always the best Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation 1 Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why,...the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice? remove every colorable pretence of complaint; if an intention to pursue by amicable... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1845 - 492 pages
...us 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...the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice ? "Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of... | |
 | Levi Carroll Judson - Conduct of life - 1846 - 334 pages
...us provocation ; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided hy justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation...ambition, rivalship, interest, humour, or caprice. It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances, with any portion of the foreign world... | |
 | William Hickey - Constitutional history - 1846 - 396 pages
...us 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?...the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice? It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of... | |
 | United States. President - Presidents - 1846 - 766 pages
...shall counsel. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand on foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny...the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice ? It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of... | |
 | Andrew White Young - Law - 1846 - 240 pages
...so peculiar a situation 1 Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground 1 Why, by interweaving vour destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle...the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice 1 It i$ our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of... | |
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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,... 
