 | William Sherwood - Conversation - 1856 - 466 pages
...favorite, are liable tu become suspected and odious ; while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people, to surrender their interests. The great rule of conduct fur us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them... | |
 | Wilhelm Georg Grewe - Law - 2000 - 812 pages
...ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities. 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. Our detached and 51 »Weltstaatensystem« - »Stoff für den Geschichtsschreiber... | |
 | Don Higginbotham - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 356 pages
...Washington, but expressed in language that flowed in Hamiltonian cadences: The Great role 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. . . . Europe has a set of primary interests, which to us have none, or a very... | |
 | Bertrand Russell - History - 2001 - 532 pages
...countries. He chose as the motto of his first pamphlet Washington's dictum : "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." Throughout his political career, he urged this maxim upon English statesmen,... | |
 | John V. Denson - Executive power - 2001 - 830 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 as possible. . . . 7 See Harry Elmer Barnes, "Revisionism and the Historical Blackout,"... | |
 | Sara S. Chapman, Ursula S. Colby - Political Science - 2001 - 266 pages
...foreign policy. Part III Foreign Policy: The "Indispensable Nation"? The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations, to have. . . as little political connection as possible. . . . Taking care always to keep ourselves in... | |
 | Gleaves Whitney - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 496 pages
...favorite are liable to become suspected and odious, while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people to surrender their interests....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... | |
 | Lawrence S. Kaplan - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 220 pages
...conduct for us in regard to foreign nations ought to be to have as little political connections with them as possible — so far as we have already formed engagements let them be fulfilled — with circumspection indeed but with perfect good faith. Here let us stop."23 Historians are still debating... | |
 | Fraser Cameron - History - 2002 - 244 pages
...guidelines for American foreign policy that found widespread approval. The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is in extending our commercial relations but to have with them as little political connections as possible. It is our true policy to steer clear... | |
 | David Boaz - Business & Economics - 2002 - 484 pages
...emergencies," Washington clearly favored an aloof approach to world affairs: "The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is in extending our commercial relations and to have with them as little political connection as possible." - t 246 Nonintervention in the Constitution... | |
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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 connection as possible. 
