The Life of George Washington: With Curious Anecdotes, Equally Honourable to Himself, and Exemplary to His Young CountrymenJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1857 - 244 頁 |
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第 170 頁 - which are essentially foreign to our concerns, Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves, by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics,or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities. " Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. If we
第 167 頁 - Tis substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule indeed extends with more or less force to every species of free government. Who that is a sincere friend to it can look with indifference upon attempts to shake the foundation of the fabric
第 171 頁 - that honesty is always the 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. " Taking care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies. "Harmony
第 160 頁 - a sphere. Let experience solve it. To listen to mere speculation in such a case were criminal. We are authorised to hope that a proper organization of the whole, with the auxiliary agency of governments for the respective subdivisions, will afford a happy issue to the experiment. 'Tis well worth a fair and full experiment.
第 172 頁 - be productive of some partial benefit, some occasional good ; that they may now and then recur to moderate the fury of party spirit ; to warn against the mischiefs of foreign intrigue ; to guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism; this hope will be a full recompense for the solicitude for your welfare,
第 170 頁 - excessive dislike of another, cause, those whom they actuate, to see danger only on one side ; and serve to veil and even second the arts of influence on the other. Real patriots, who may resist the intrigues of the favorite, are liable to become suspected and odious, while its
第 167 頁 - essential that public opinion should be enlightened. " As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit. One method of preserv ing it, is to use it as sparingly as possible ; avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace ; but remembering also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to
第 156 頁 - had been reluctantly drawn. The strength of my inclination to do this previous to the last election, had even led to the preparation of an address to declare it to you. But mature reflection on the then perplexed and critical posture of our affairs with foreign nations, and the unanimous advice of persons
第 174 頁 - retreat, in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of my fellow citizens, the benign influence of good laws under a free government—the ever favourite object of my heart, and the happy reward, as I trust, of our mutual
第 160 頁 - The WEST derives from the EAST supplies requisite to its growth and comfort : and what is, perhaps, of still greater consequence, it must of necessity owe the SECURE enjoyment of indispensible OUTLETS for its own productions, to the weight, influence, and the future maritime strength of the Atlantic side of the Union, directed by an indissoluble community of