...not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs,...safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies."19 Earlier Washington had expressed this beautiful and true idea: "The nation which indulges...

...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. 1 repeat, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But in my opinion it...

...any portion of the foreign world Taking care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, on a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust...temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies 47 / "Qreat anxiety prevails... [about] the future President" Washington's announcement that he would...

...to have. . . as little political connection as possible. . . . Taking care always to keep ourselves in a respectable defensive posture, we may safely...temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies. —George Washington Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been unfurled, there will...

...not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs,...always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, on a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies....

...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. I repeat, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But in my opinion it is unnecessary...

...not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs,...temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies.' In a previous part of the same letter Washington makes the following admirable and just remark: 'The...

...not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements (I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs,...always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, on a respectably defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies....

...in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice? i < 7 hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs that honesty is always the best policy." It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world,...

...not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing arrangements (I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs,...always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, on a respectably defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies....