 ... it is folly in one nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its independence for whatever it may accept under that character...  Writings of George Washington - Página 547de George Washington - 1908 - 567 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce - 1961 - 1176 páginas
...abandoned or varied, as experience and circumstances shall dictate; constantly keeping in view that it is folly in one nation to look for disinterested favors...condition of having given equivalents for nominal favors and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not having more. There can be no greater error... | |
 | Felix Gilbert - 1961 - 188 páginas
...thing under that character is to part with a portion of its independence — and that it may — find itself in the condition of having given equivalents for nominal favours and of being reproached with ingratitude in the bargain. There can be no greater error in national policy... | |
 | Jay Fliegelman - 1982 - 344 páginas
...Address of 1796 he restated the warning of the sentimental parent to the sentimental heroine: 'tis folly in one nation to look for disinterested favors...of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving moreThere can be no greater folly than to expect, or calculate upon real favours from Nation to Nation... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations - 1982 - 362 páginas
...relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible." And he went on to say: ". . . It is folly in one nation to look for disinterested favors from another. ". . . It may place itself in the condition ... of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving... | |
 | Robert A. Pastor - 1987 - 432 páginas
...Washington's warning that "itisfpllym one nation to look for disinterested favors frqm another; ... it must pay with a portion of its independence for whatever it may accept." The price paid to the Soviet bloc for aid is large, but privately contracted; the United States generally... | |
 | Various - 1994 - 676 páginas
...abandoned or varied, as experience and circumstances shall dictate; constantly keeping in view, that it is folly in one nation to look for disinterested favors...condition of having given equivalents for nominal favors, and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more. There can be no greater error... | |
 | Stanley M. Elkins, Eric McKitrick - 1995 - 952 páginas
...is "folly in one nation to look for disinterested favors from another," and the nation that does so "must pay with a portion of its independence for whatever it may accept under that character."8 Washington indicates how he himself has tried to follow these rules, the basis for his... | |
 | Anders Breidlid - 1996 - 432 páginas
...abandoned or varied as experience and circumstances shall dictate; constantly keeping in view that it is folly in one nation to look for disinterested favors...condition of having given equivalents for nominal favors, and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more. There can be no greater error... | |
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