 | George Washington - 1998 - 40 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...it therefore, let those engagements be observed in [27] their genuine sense. But in my opinion it is unnecessary and would be unwise to extend them. Taking... | |
 | West Group - 1998 - 556 Seiten
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 | 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... | |
 | John Grafton - 2000 - 114 Seiten
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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... 
