 | Jeremy A. Rabkin - 2004 - 284 pages
...avoid any further entanglements with the aims of foreign governments: "The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our...commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible"6 (original emphasis). Preoccupation with securing its independence did not... | |
 | Hugh Gusterson - 2004 - 348 pages
...broke with George Washington's declaration in his farewell address that "the great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our...commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible."1 The North Atlantic Treaty marked the start of "an American protectorate for... | |
 | James Walsh - 2004 - 353 pages
...often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of nations has been the victim. .. .The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is in extending our...commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible. In those few paragraphs, Washington anticipated many of the problems that America... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 2004 - 960 pages
...fellow citizens that served as his political testament, had this to say: The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is in extending our...commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled, with perfect... | |
 | Wardell Lindsay - 2005 - 8 pages
...liable to become suspected and odious, The Path to Peace © 2005 by Wardell Lindsay while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the...commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements let them be fulfilled with perfect... | |
 | Peter Augustine Lawler, Robert Martin Schaefer - 2005 - 444 pages
...may resist the intrigues of the favourite, are liable to become suspected and odious; while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the...commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements let them be fulfilled, with perfect... | |
 | Thomas L. Krannawitter, Daniel C. Palm - 2005 - 270 pages
...may resist the intrigues of the favorite, are liable to become suspected and odious; while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the...commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements let them be fulfilled, with perfect... | |
 | Washington Irving - 2005 - 417 pages
...resist the intrigues of the favourite, are liable to become suspected and odious; while its toois aad dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people,...Nations is, [in extending our commercial relations,] to ha7a with them as little Political connection as possible. go far as we have aiready formed engagements... | |
 | Jeremy A. Rabkin - 2005 - 366 pages
...influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government. . . . The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our...commercial relations to have with them as little political connection [original emphasis] as possible . . . there can be no greater error that to expect or calculate... | |
 | Mark Skousen, Benjamin Franklin - 2005 - 514 pages
...of George Washington's farewell address, who in 1796 warned citizens, "The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending...commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible." Franklin had said it more succinctly in 1778, nearly two decades earlier:... | |
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The great rule of conduct for us. in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connexion as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfect good... 
