 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. I hold the...  The Making of America - Page 1by Robert Marion La Follette - 1904Full view - About this book
 | John Frost - 1847 - 602 pages
...do it ; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than...private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But, in my opinion,... | |
 | Jonathan French - United States - 1847 - 506 pages
...do it ; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than...private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But in my opinion, it... | |
 | Alexis Poole - 1847 - 514 pages
...do it ; for let me not be anderstood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim, no less applicable to public than...to private affairs, that honesty is always the best poliey. I repeat, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But in my opinion,... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional law - 1847 - 384 pages
...do it ; for let me not be understood as capable of patronising infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than...to private affairs, that honesty is always the best poligy. I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But, in my... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - Presidents - 1848 - 146 pages
...to do it; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than...private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But, in my opinion,... | |
 | Andrew White Young - United States - 1848 - 304 pages
...do it ; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than...private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But in my opinion, it... | |
 | John Frost - United States - 1848 - 424 pages
...to do it; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than...private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But, in my opinion,... | |
 | Levi Carroll Judson - Conduct of life - 1848 - 364 pages
...do it ; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. 1 hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to...private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But in my opinion... | |
 | Andrew White Young - Law - 1848 - 244 pages
...do it; for let me not be understood as capable of patron vi. ing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the beat policy. I repeat, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. Hut in... | |
 | Indiana - 1849 - 520 pages
...it ; for let me not be understood as capable of patron- ; izing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than...private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But, in my opinion,... | |
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