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... wrote to Congress , " Your deputies , gentlemen , will find in me a sure friend , an asylum in my house , money in my coffers , and every means of prosecuting their operations whether of a public or a secret nature . " Meantime the ...
... wrote to Congress , " Your deputies , gentlemen , will find in me a sure friend , an asylum in my house , money in my coffers , and every means of prosecuting their operations whether of a public or a secret nature . " Meantime the ...
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... wrote later , " He possessed the confidence of that government in the highest degree , insomuch that it may truly be said that they were more under his influence than he under theirs . " Franklin's success rendered the triumph of ...
... wrote later , " He possessed the confidence of that government in the highest degree , insomuch that it may truly be said that they were more under his influence than he under theirs . " Franklin's success rendered the triumph of ...
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... wrote to George III that he was assured that the latter would regard it as one more manifestation of his friendly disposition ; and in April war between France and England began . Thanks largely to the tact of Franklin , the alliance ...
... wrote to George III that he was assured that the latter would regard it as one more manifestation of his friendly disposition ; and in April war between France and England began . Thanks largely to the tact of Franklin , the alliance ...
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... wrote to Livingston , “ When you consider the ostensible object of this expedition , the distance of it , the formalities with which the place , the coun- try , and the rivers were taken possession of in the name of His Catholic Majesty ...
... wrote to Livingston , “ When you consider the ostensible object of this expedition , the distance of it , the formalities with which the place , the coun- try , and the rivers were taken possession of in the name of His Catholic Majesty ...
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... wrote in 1776 , " We are as well fixed with him now as we were with the former . " During 1777 the British naval vessels off St. Eustatius were ordered to search for contraband all vessels entering and leaving the island , and to send ...
... wrote in 1776 , " We are as well fixed with him now as we were with the former . " During 1777 the British naval vessels off St. Eustatius were ordered to search for contraband all vessels entering and leaving the island , and to send ...
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Page 448 - Chronic wrongdoing, or an impotence which results in a general loosening of the ties of civilized society, may in America, as elsewhere, ultimately require intervention by some civilized nation, and in the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly, in flagrant cases of such wrongdoing or impotence, to the exercise of an international police power.
Page 212 - In the discussions to which this interest has given rise and in the arrangements by which they may terminate the occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.
Page 212 - Our policy in regard to Europe, which was adopted at an early stage of the wars which have so long agitated that quarter of the globe, nevertheless remains the same, which is, not to interfere in the internal concerns of any of its Powers; to consider the government de facto as the legitimate government for us...
Page 212 - It is impossible that the allied powers should extend their political system to any portion of either continent without endangering our peace and happiness; nor can anyone believe that our southern brethren, if left to themselves, would adopt it of their own accord.
Page 456 - It is, of course, too early to forecast the means of attaining this last result; but the policy of the government of the United States is to seek a solution which may bring about permanent safety and peace to China, preserve Chinese (erritorial and administrative entity, protect all rights guaranteed to friendly powers by treaty and international law, and safeguard for the world the principle of equal and impartial trade with all parts of the Chinese Empire.
Page 345 - First, to use due diligence to prevent the fitting out, arming, or equipping, within its jurisdiction, of any vessel which it has reasonable ground to believe is intended to cruise or to carry on war against a power with which it is at peace ; and also to use like diligence to prevent the departure from its jurisdiction of any vessel intended to cruise or carry on war as above, such vessel having been specially adapted, in whole or in part, within such jurisdiction, to warlike...
Page 301 - Should this question be answered in the affirmative, then, by every law, human and divine, we shall be justified in wresting it from Spain, if we possess the power...
Page 392 - To-day the United States is practically sovereign on this continent, and its fiat is law upon the subjects to which it confines its interposition.
Page 462 - The policy of both governments, uninfluenced by any aggressive tendencies, is directed to the maintenance of the existing status quo in the region above mentioned and to the defense of the principle of equal opportunity for commerce and industry in China.
Page 149 - Parma, the colony or province of Louisiana, with the same extent that it now has in the hands of Spain, and that it had when France possessed it, and such as it should be after the treaties subsequently entered into between Spain and other States.