 | Henry Cabot Lodge - 1909 - 490 trang
...republics were such as to call for our efforts to defeat the meditated crusade. Mr. Jefferson said : — The question presented by the letters you have sent...ocean of time opening on us. And never could we embark on it under circumstances more auspicious. Our first and fundamental maxim should be never to entangle... | |
 | Howard Walter Caldwell, Clark Edmund Persinger - 1909 - 544 trang
...Congress, vol. 38, 429, 431. 36. Adams, Memoirs, VI, 163. 37. R. Rush, The Court of London, 430-432. tion presented by the letters you have sent me, is the most momentous . . . since that of independence. That made us a nation, this . . . points the course we are to steer... | |
 | Frederick Palmer - 1910 - 394 trang
...generations. In a letter dated October 24, 1823, Ex-President Jefferson wrote to Ex-President Madison in part: "The question presented by the letters you have sent...ocean of time opening on us. And never could we embark on it under ciri cumstances more auspicious. Our first and fundamental maxim should be never to entangle... | |
 | 1921 - 270 trang
...dispatches, with an intimation of the motive." Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, October 24, 1823 : "The question presented by the letters you have sent...nation; this sets our compass and points the course we are to steer through the ocean of time opening on us. And never could we embark on it under circumstances... | |
 | 1898 - 984 trang
...how logically he deduced the Monroe Doctrine from the principles of Washington's Farewell Address : " The question presented by the letters you have sent me is the most momentous which has been offered to my contemplation since that of Independence. That made us a nation ; this seta the... | |
 | 1924 - 334 trang
...correspondence with Canning. Monroe wrote Jefferson, and Jefferson replied that the question presented was "the most momentous which has ever been offered to...made us a nation; this sets our compass and points out the course which we are to steer through the ocean of time opening on us." Back of all that had... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1970 - 420 trang
...[President Monroe, who had asked for advice in 1823, when preparing what became the Monroe Doctrine] sent me is the most momentous which has ever been...ocean of time opening on us. And never could we embark on it under circumstances more auspicious. Our first and fundamental maxim should be, never to entangle... | |
 | Suzanne Oboler - 1995 - 260 trang
...Monroe in a letter on the Monroe Doctrine: "[ Independence] made us a nation, (the Monroe Doctrine] sets our compass and points the course which we are...to steer through the ocean of time opening on us." Quoted in Sculley Bradley et aL, eds.. The American Tradition in Literature 1:330. By February 15,... | |
 | Walter A. McDougall - 1997 - 316 trang
...been offered to my contemplation since that of Independence. Titat made us a nation; this sets the compass and points the course which we are to steer through the ocean of time opening to us. ... Our first and fundamental maxim thould be never to entangle ourselves in the htoils of Europe;... | |
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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 through... 
