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Adams administration affairs American appeared appointment army arrived attack Augustine Washington British Bushrod Washington cabinet character Charles Cotesworth Pinckney Citizen Genet citizens Colonel command conduct Congress considered Constitution debt declared duty Edmund Randolph effect executive expedition expressed favor feel foreign France French French Directory Freneau's friendship Gazette Genet give Gouverneur Morris Governor Hamilton happiness honor House of Representatives Indians ington Jacobin club Jefferson John Adams justice Knox Lafayette legislature letter liberty Madison measures ment military militia mind minister Mount Vernon nation neutrality never object observed opinion paper Paris party patriots peace Philadelphia Pinckney political popular portrait present President President's proclamation proclamation of neutrality Randolph received regard reply republic republican retirement revolution Secretary Secretary of War Senate sentiments session sion spirit Talleyrand tion Treasury treaty troops Union United vessels Virginia Wash Washington wish writes
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Página 429 - ... it is folly in one nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its independence for whatever it may accept under that character...
Página 428 - It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world; so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it ; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements.
Página 421 - I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the state, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally.
Página 427 - ... from whom equal privileges are withheld. And it gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens (who devote themselves to the favourite nation) facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country, without odium, sometimes even with popularity...
Página 428 - Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of 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.
Página 414 - If benefits have resulted to our country from these services, let it always be remembered to your praise, and as an instructive example in our annals, that under circumstances in which the passions, agitated in every direction, were liable to mislead, amidst appearances sometimes dubious, vicissitudes of fortune often discouraging...
Página 424 - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.
Página 426 - The nation which indulges towards another an habitual hatred or an habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.
Página 414 - In looking forward to the moment which is intended to terminate the career of my public life, my feelings do not permit me to suspend the deep acknowledgment of that debt of gratitude which I owe to my beloved country, for the many honors it has conferred upon me ; still more for the steadfast confidence with which it has supported me...
Página 422 - ... sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty.