 | Charles Cerami - History - 2004 - 322 pages
...that door, assumes to us the attitude of defiance. Spain might have retained it quietly for years.... Not so can it ever be in the hands of France: The...character, placed in a point of eternal friction with us... Jefferson's letter went on with the same white heat to a muchquoted passage about "the day that France... | |
 | Marie-Jeanne Rossignol - History - 2004 - 304 pages
...her possession of the place would be hardly felt by us, and it would not perhaps be very long before some circumstance might arise which might make the cession of it to us the price of something more worth to her. Not so can it ever be in the hands of France."18 That the retrocession of Louisiana... | |
 | Robert M. S. McDonald - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 264 pages
...friend" to its "natural and habitual enemy." In language that would rival Hamilton's, Jefferson warned: "The impetuosity of her temper, the energy and restlessness...eternal friction with us, and our character, which though quiet, and loving peace and the pursuit of wealth, is highminded, despising wealth in competition... | |
 | Jeremy A. Rabkin - Political Science - 2004 - 284 pages
...Jefferson instructed the US minister to France on the implications: "The impetuosity of [France's] temper, the energy and restlessness of her character,...eternal friction with us, and our character, which though quiet and loving peace and the pursuit of wealth, is high-minded, despising wealth in competition... | |
 | Gordon S. Brown - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 350 pages
...us, and it would not perhaps be very long before some circumstance might arise which might make die cession of it to us the price of something of more worth to her. Not so can it ever be in die hands of France. The impetuosity of her temper, the energy and resdessness of her character, placed... | |
 | Dianne L. Durante - Art - 2007 - 312 pages
...of our whole produce and contain more than half of our inhabitants.... The impetuosity of [France's] temper, the energy and restlessness of her character...eternal friction with us and our character, which, though quiet, and loving peace and the pursuit of wealth, is high-minded, despising wealth in competition... | |
 | David Mayers - History - 2007 - 10 pages
...half our inhabitants. France placing herself in that door assumes to us the attitude of defiance . . . The impetuosity of her temper, the energy and restlessness...character placed in a point of eternal friction with us ... render it impossible that France and the US can continue long friends when they meet in so irritable... | |
 | Jeremy D. Bailey - Political Science - 2007 - 275 pages
...claim. France, by contrast, had too much to gain by keeping New Orleans closed to the United States: the "impetuosity of her temper, the energy and restlessness of her character" would forever bump against the national aspirations of the American republic, "which though quiet,... | |
 | William Sweet, Mark Spencer - Philosophy - 2003 - 286 pages
...our whole population. France placing herself in that door assumes toward us the attitude of defiance. The impetuosity of her temper, the energy and restlessness...point of eternal friction with us and our character, are circumstances which render it impossible that France and the United States can continue long friends... | |
| |
Not so can it ever be in the hands of France. The impetuosity of her temper, the energy and restlessness of her character... 
