| Furman Sheppard - Constitutional law - 1855 - 342 pages
...best policy. I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But, in my opinion, it is unnecessary, and would be unwise...always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, on a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies.... | |
| Furman Sheppard - Constitutional law - 1855 - 337 pages
...best policy. I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But, in my opinion, it is unnecessary, and would be unwise...always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, on a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies.... | |
| Furman Sheppard - Constitutional law - 1855 - 338 pages
...best policy. I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But, in my opinion, it is unnecessary, and would be unwise...always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, on a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies.... | |
| Furman Sheppard - 1855 - 340 pages
...policy. I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But, in rny opinion, it is unnecessary, and would be unwise to...always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, on a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies.... | |
| Almanacs, American - 1845 - 74 pages
...policy. I repeat it, i therefore, let those engagements be observed ill their genuine sense. But, in my opinion, it is unnecessary, and would be unwise, to extend them. Taking care alwaos to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, on a respectable defensive posture, we may safely... | |
| Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1855 - 922 pages
...policy. . I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in (heir genuine sense ; but in my opinion it is unnecessary, and would be unwise, to extend them. 252 ments, in a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary... | |
| Charles Wentworth Upham - Presidents - 1856 - 406 pages
...best policy. I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But, in my opinion, it is unnecessary and would be unwise...always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, on a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies.... | |
| John Richard Alden - 1984 - 356 pages
...their genuine sense." For the future, "taking care to keep ourselves by suitable establishments on a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust...temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies." He did not, could not, of course, foresee a distant time when the world had shrunk so far militarily... | |
| Myres S Mac Dougal, William Michael Reisman - Law - 1985 - 490 pages
...best policy. I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense; but in my opinion, it is unnecessary and would be unwise to extend them. This text, which has been reproduced so often, continues to fascinate me. In one sense, it is only... | |
| Thomas H. Buckley, Edwin B. Strong - National security - 1987 - 228 pages
...steer clear of permanent alliances. . . . Taking care to keep ourselves by suitable establishments on a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust...temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies, [emphasis supplied by authors] Contrary to popular myth, nowhere did Washington use the word "isolation"... | |
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