 | George Washington - Presidents - 1800 - 240 pages
...impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation ; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. WHY forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? why quit our own, to stand upon foreign ground... | |
 | William Cobbett - United States - 1801 - 586 pages
...impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation ; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. " Why forego the advantages of such a peculiar situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground?... | |
 | 1802 - 440 pages
...impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation ; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. WHY forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground... | |
 | John Taylor - Jefferson, Thomas - 1804 - 148 pages
...impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation ; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. "Why forego the advantages of so peculiars situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground... | |
 | Richard Snowden - America - 1805 - 398 pages
...impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation ; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground... | |
 | United States. President - Presidents - 1805 - 276 pages
...impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly* hazard the giving us provocation ; when we may choose peace or War, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign, ground... | |
 | David Ramsay - Presidents - 1807 - 486 pages
...impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving uss provocation, when we may choose peace or war, as- our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. " Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon tbreigii- ground?... | |
 | History - 1807 - 772 pages
...impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; wherf we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. Why forego, the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground?... | |
 | John Marshall - 1807 - 840 pages
...impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation ; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. " Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground?... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1807 - 576 pages
...impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightlr hazard the giving us provocation ; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. " Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground... | |
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... from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly... 
