 | Ted Galen Carpenter, Barbara Conry - 1998 - 300 Seiten
...Farewell Address. "Taking care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, on a respectably defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies." 38 By portraying NATO as a permanent alliance, the administration claims to be learning from the history... | |
 | Richard Dowis - 2000 - 292 Seiten
...extending our commercial relations to nave with mem as little political connection as possible. . . . Taking care always to keep ourselves, by suitable...alliances for extraordinary emergencies. Harmony, liberal intercourse witb all nations are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest. But even our... | |
 | Edward C. Luck - 2010 - 396 Seiten
...United States "to have with them as little political connection as possible." He urged that existing "engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But...is unnecessary and would be unwise to extend them." Arguing against "permanent alliances " Washington acknowledged that from "a respectable defensive posture,... | |
 | Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, Stephen J. McKenna - 1999 - 978 Seiten
...to extend them. Taking care always to keep ourselves, hy suitahle estahlishments, in a respectahle defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary...alliances for extraordinary emergencies. Harmony, and a liheral intereourse with all nations, are recommended hy policy, humanity, and interest. But even our... | |
 | Edward C. Luck - 2010 - 404 Seiten
...be unwise to extend them." Arguing against "permanent alliances," Washington acknowledged that from "a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies."4 After all, the alliance with France had just proved to be a considerable asset in the... | |
 | Jim F. Watts, Fred L. Israel - 2000 - 416 Seiten
...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...alliances for extraordinary emergencies. Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest. But even our... | |
 | David Brion Davis, Steven Mintz - 1998 - 607 Seiten
...'T 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...temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies 47 / "Qreat anxiety prevails... [about] the future President" Washington's announcement that he would... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 2000 - 804 Seiten
...would be unwise to extend them. "Taking care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies."19 Earlier Washington had expressed this beautiful and true idea: "The nation which indulges... | |
 | Sara S. Chapman, Ursula S. Colby - 2001 - 266 Seiten
...have. . . as little political connection as possible. . . . Taking care always to keep ourselves in a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust...temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies. —George Washington Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been unfurled, there will... | |
 | Raymond Aron - 2009 - 550 Seiten
...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...temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies. . . . The Nation, which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in... | |
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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... 
