...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...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...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,...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...European complication, are the warnings of the founders of the Republic. It was Jefferson who said: "Our first and fundamental maxim should be never to entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe/' Washington, when retiring from his great office, left these farewell words to be read and pondered...

...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...maxim should be, never to entangle ourselves in the toils of Europe. Our second, never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cis-Atlantic affairs. America,...

...addressed by Jefferson from Monticello, on October 241(1, to the President, in which Jefferson had said: "Our first and fundamental maxim should be never to...Europe to intermeddle with cis-Atlantic affairs." It was thus Jefferson who, in this document, dictated to Monroe the idea that "America, North and South,...