 | 1858 - 784 Seiten
...our compass, and points the course we are to steer through the ocean of time opening on us. Our first fundamental maxim should be, never to entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe : our second, never to sufter Europe to intermeddle with cis-atlautic affairs. America, North and South, has a set of interests... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 916 Seiten
...never could we emIt on it under circumstances more auspicious. Our first and fundamental maxim uld be, never to entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe. Our second — er to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cis- Atlantic affairs. America, North and ith, has a set... | |
 | Joshua Leavitt - 1863 - 108 Seiten
...nation ; this sets our compass, and points the course which we a/re to steer through the ocean of time. And never could we embark on it under circumstances...to intermeddle with cis-Atlantic affairs. America has a set of interests, (North and South,) distinct from those of Europe, and peculiarly her own. She... | |
 | Joshua Leavitt - 1863 - 60 Seiten
...nation ; this sets our compass, and points the course which ice a/re to steer through the ocean of time. And never could we embark on it under circumstances...Our second, never to suffer Europe to intermeddle mth cis-Atlantic affairs. America has a set of interests, (North and South,) distinct from those of... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1863 - 878 Seiten
...nation ; this sell our compass, and points Ute course trhich ice are to steer ihrmtgh the ocean of time. And never could we embark on it under circumstances...never to entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe. Onr second, ncivr to tuffr Europe to intermeddle with cis-Atlantic affairs. America has a set of interests,... | |
 | Samuel Sullivan Cox - 1865 - 486 Seiten
...declaration has a larger meaning. It has become settled policy. In 1823, Mr. Jefferson laid it down thus: "Our first and fundamental maxim should be, never...never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cisatlantic anufe." Yet this doctrine is sneered at, as if Monroe's ghost were invoked to do a kind of constable's... | |
 | Gustave Paul Cluseret - 1866 - 116 Seiten
...nation ; this sets our compass, and points the course . vie are to steer through the ocean of time. And never could we embark on it under circumstances...to intermeddle with . /cisAtlantic affairs. America has a set of interests, (North and South), distinct from those of Europe, and peculiarly her own. She... | |
 | James Buchanan - 1866 - 316 Seiten
...independence. That made us a nation ; this sets our compass and points the course which we are to steer through the ocean of time opening on us ; and never could...and fundamental maxim should be, never to entangle ' D ourselves in the broils of Europe. Our second, never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cis-Atlantic... | |
 | Henry Wheaton - 1866 - 914 Seiten
...replied by an elaborate letter, of 24 October, 1823. (Jefferson's Life, iii. 491.,) He says : " Our first maxim should be, never to entangle ourselves in the...suffer Europe to intermeddle with Cisatlantic affairs." Referring to the great power Great Britain could wield for good or evil in these controversies, and... | |
 | 1888 - 934 Seiten
...of Adams and Jefferson, which the latter pithily expressed thus : " Our first and fundamental axiom should be, never to entangle ourselves in the broils...Europe to intermeddle with cis-Atlantic affairs." If it has not been possible hitherto for the United States to act up to this standard, it has been... | |
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The question presented by the letters you have sent me, is the most momentous which has ever been offered to my contemplation since that of Independence. That made us a nation, this sets our compass, and points the course which we are to steer thr6ugh... 
