 | Julian Hawthorne - 1898 - 548 Seiten
...nation : this sets our compass and points the course which we are to steer. And never could we embark under circumstances more auspicious. Our first and...broils of Europe. Our second, never to suffer Europe to meddle in cis- Atlantic affairs. America, north and south, has a set of interests distinct from those... | |
 | 1898 - 828 Seiten
...the substance of it with favor. Jefferson went to the heart of the whole matter, when he replied: " Our first and fundamental maxim should be never to...suffer Europe to intermeddle with cis-Atlantic affairs. * * * While the last (Europe) is laboring to become the domicile of despotism, our endeavor should... | |
 | Simeon Eben Baldwin - 1898 - 408 Seiten
...wrote when consulted by President Monroe as to the propriety of following the suggestion of Canning, " should be, never to entangle ourselves in the broils...cisatlantic affairs. America, North and South, has certain interests distinct from those of Europe, and peculiarly her own. She should therefore have... | |
 | United States Infantry Association - 1896 - 80 Seiten
...natural desire was voiced by Jefferson, who said : * December, 1895. f Stapleton, Canning and his Times. "Our first and fundamental maxim should be never to...ourselves in the broils of Europe; our second, never suffer Europe to intermeddle with cis-Atlantic affairs. America, North and South, has a set of interests... | |
 | Jerome Bruce Crabtree - 1898 - 468 Seiten
...; 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 we embark upon it under circumstances more auspicious. Our first and fundamental maxim should be, never to entangle... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations - 1898 - 820 Seiten
...our own," and that we should have a system of our own separate from that of Europe. He said our first maxim should be "never to entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe," and our second "never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cis Atlantic aflairs." This bas been our... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1899 - 500 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 we...second, never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cis- Atlantic affairs. America, North and South, has a set of interests distinct from those of Europe,... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1899 - 762 Seiten
...empire at the Mississippi river proving unavailing. Jefferson wrote to President Monroe in 1823: " Our first and fundamental maxim should be never to...Europe to intermeddle with cisatlantic affairs.'' But how should these sentiments, provided we felt ourselves bound to them throughout all time, affect... | |
 | David Henry Montgomery - 1899 - 642 Seiten
...Spanish American Republics. President Monroe consulted Jefferson on this point and Jefferson replied : "Our first and fundamental maxim should be, never...second, never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with els-Atlantic affairs." In these utterances of John Quincy Adams and Ex-President Jefferson we have... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrop - 1899 - 1180 Seiten
...subject anxious consideration. Thomas Jefferson, in commenting on the proposal, used this language : " Our first and fundamental maxim should be never to...second, never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cis-Atlautic affairs. While Europe is laboring to become the domicile of despotism, our endeavor should... | |
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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... 
