 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1850 - 488 Seiten
...capable of patronising infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the...always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies."... | |
 | United States, William Hickey - 1851 - 616 Seiten
...capable of patronising infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the...is unnecessary, and would be unwise to extend them. 229 Taking care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, on a respectable defensive posture,... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1851 - 954 Seiten
...of pati snising infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no i, \ess applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the...it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in (heir genuine sense ; but in my opinion it is unnecessary, and would be unwise, to extend them. " Taking... | |
 | George Washington - 1852 - 76 Seiten
...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 - 456 Seiten
...capable of 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... | |
 | Joseph Bartlett Burleigh - 1853 - 354 Seiten
...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...respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to [temporary]104 alliances for extraordinary emergencies. Harmony, liberal intercourse with all Nations,... | |
 | William Hickey - 1853 - 604 Seiten
...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... | |
 | William L. Hickey - 1853 - 588 Seiten
...maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always tne best policy. 1 repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed...in their genuine sense. But, in my opinion, it is unubcessary, and would be unwise to extend them. Taking care always to keep ourselves, by suitable... | |
 | 1853 - 514 Seiten
...capable of 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, theiefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But in my opinion, it is unnecessary,... | |
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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 infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the... 
