 | 1903 - 782 pages
...themselves, their own people, and that is what they are for. Washington, in his Farewell Address, warned us that "it is folly in one nation to look for disinterested favors from another," and he made an appeal Lo national sentiment and interest which applies to industry not less than to... | |
 | United States. Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission - 1941 - 904 pages
...abandoned or varied, as experience and circumstances shall dictate; constantly keeping in view, that 'tis folly in one Nation to look for disinterested favors...condition of having given equivalents for nominal favours and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more. — There can be no greater... | |
 | William Russell White - 1951 - 1006 pages
...who views in it the native soil of himself and his progenitors for several generations; . . . ". . . constantly keeping in view, that it is folly in one...nation to look for disinterested favors from another; . . . There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favors from nation to nation.... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs - 1957 - 1490 pages
...disposition to retaliate in the parties for whom equal privileges are withheld." He goes on : 11 Tis folly in one nation to look for disinterested favors...that it must pay with a portion of its independence * * *." He added : "There can lie no greater error than to expect or calculate on real favors from... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce - 1961 - 1176 pages
...temporary, and liable to be from time to time abandoned or varied, as experience and circumstances shall dictate; constantly keeping in view that it...and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not having more. There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favors from nation... | |
 | Felix Gilbert - 1961 - 188 pages
...abandoned or varied, as experience and circumstances shall dictate; constantly keeping in view that 'tis folly in one nation to look for disinterested favors...condition of having given equivalents for nominal favours and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more. — There can be no greater... | |
 | Jay Fliegelman - 1982 - 344 pages
...Address of 1796 he restated the warning of the sentimental parent to the sentimental heroine: 'tis folly in one nation to look for disinterested favors...condition of having given equivalents for nominal favours and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving moreThere can be no greater folly... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations - 1982 - 362 pages
...relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible." And he went on to say: ". . . It is folly in one nation to look for disinterested favors from another. ". . . It may place itself in the condition ... of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving... | |
 | Robert A. Pastor - 1987 - 432 pages
...Washington's warning that "itisfpllym one nation to look for disinterested favors frqm another; ... it must pay with a portion of its independence for whatever it may accept." The price paid to the Soviet bloc for aid is large, but privately contracted; the United States generally... | |
 | Stanley M. Elkins, Eric McKitrick - 1995 - 952 pages
...seeking nor granting exclusive preferences, nor trying to force trade out of its natural channels. It is "folly in one nation to look for disinterested favors from another," and the nation that does so "must pay with a portion of its independence for whatever it may accept... | |
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... it is folly in one nation to look for disinterested favors from another ; that it must pay with a portion of its independence for whatever it may accept under that character... 
