 | United States - 1840 - 128 pages
...acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation ; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel....situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny with fhat of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional law - 1840 - 394 pages
...acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation ; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel....situation ? Why quit our own, to stand upon foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity... | |
 | Presidents - 1841 - 460 pages
...acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel....situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity... | |
 | Edward Currier - United States - 1841 - 474 pages
...acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation ; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel....situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity... | |
 | William Smyth - Great Britain - 1841 - 522 pages
...possible. It is but painful to observe his description of our European nations. " Why," says he, " entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of...European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice ? " " The sentiments of veneration," says his biographer, " with which his address was generally received,... | |
 | M. Sears - Statesmen - 1842 - 586 pages
...acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel....situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our "peace and prosperity... | |
 | United States. President - Presidents - 1842 - 794 pages
...acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation ; when we may choose peace or war as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel....so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand on foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our... | |
 | Samuel Farmer Wilson - United States - 1843 - 452 pages
...acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocations ; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel....situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 pages
...acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation ; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel....situation ? Why quit our own, to stand upon foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity... | |
 | M. Sears - Statesmen - 1844 - 596 pages
...forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation 1 Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any...ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice? policy. I repeat, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But, in my opinion,... | |
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Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest,... 
