| Julian Hawthorne - United States - 1898 - 548 pages
...nation : this sets our compass and points the course which we are to steer. And never could we embark under circumstances more auspicious. Our first and...broils of Europe. Our second, never to suffer Europe to meddle in cis- Atlantic affairs. America, north and south, has a set of interests distinct from those... | |
| North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1898 - 828 pages
...the substance of it with favor. Jefferson went to the heart of the whole matter, when he replied: " Our first and fundamental maxim should be never to...second, never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cis-Atlantic affairs. * * * While the last (Europe) is laboring to become the domicile of despotism,... | |
| Howard Walter Caldwell - United States - 1898 - 268 pages
...hemisphere. — Jefferson's Works, vol. V, p. 381. In 1823 Jefferson writes to Monroe in these words: Our first and fundamental maxim should be, never to...second, never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cisAtlantic affairs. America, North and . South, has a set of interests distinct from those of Europe,... | |
| Simeon Eben Baldwin - Business & Economics - 1898 - 408 pages
...wrote when consulted by President Monroe as to the propriety of following the suggestion of Canning, " should be, never to entangle ourselves in the broils...second never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cisatlantic affairs. America, North and South, has certain interests distinct from those of Europe,... | |
| United States Infantry Association - 1896 - 80 pages
...natural desire was voiced by Jefferson, who said : * December, 1895. f Stapleton, Canning and his Times. "Our first and fundamental maxim should be never to...ourselves in the broils of Europe; our second, never suffer Europe to intermeddle with cis-Atlantic affairs. America, North and South, has a set of interests... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations - 1898 - 820 pages
...our own," and that we should have a system of our own separate from that of Europe. He said our first maxim should be "never to entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe," and our second "never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cis Atlantic aflairs." This bas been our... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - Presidents - 1899 - 516 pages
...this sets our compass and points the course which we are to steer through the ocean of time opening on us. And never could we embark on it under circumstances...second, never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cis-Atlantic affairs. America, North and South, has a set of interests distinct from those of Europe,... | |
| David Henry Montgomery - United States - 1899 - 642 pages
...Spanish American Republics. President Monroe consulted Jefferson on this point and Jefferson replied : "Our first and fundamental maxim should be, never...second, never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with els-Atlantic affairs." In these utterances of John Quincy Adams and Ex-President Jefferson we have... | |
| Hubert Howe Bancroft - Pacific Area - 1899 - 762 pages
...empire at the Mississippi river proving unavailing. Jefferson wrote to President Monroe in 1823: " Our first and fundamental maxim should be never to...second, never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cisatlantic affairs.'' But how should these sentiments, provided we felt ourselves bound to them throughout... | |
| Henry Davenport Northrop - United States - 1899 - 1180 pages
...subject anxious consideration. Thomas Jefferson, in commenting on the proposal, used this language : " Our first and fundamental maxim should be never to...second, never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cis-Atlautic affairs. While Europe is laboring to become the domicile of despotism, our endeavor should... | |
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