 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
 | Joseph Bartlett Burleigh - Parliamentary practice - 1853 - 354 pages
...— for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to [existing]100 engagements, ([I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs],101 that honesty is [always]10" the best policy.) — [I repeat it therefore let those engagements]... | |
 | United States. President - United States - 1854 - 616 pages
...to 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...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... | |
 | Jonathan French - 1854 - 534 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... | |
 | Henry Clay Watson - United States - 1854 - 1012 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,... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1854 - 492 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...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... | |
 | William Hickey - Constitutional history - 1854 - 590 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 me best policy. I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But,... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1899 - 514 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... | |
 | Furman Sheppard - Constitutional law - 1855 - 342 pages
...do it; for let me not be misunderstood as capable of patronising 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,... | |
 | Furman Sheppard - Constitutional law - 1855 - 337 pages
...do it; for let me not be misunderstood as capable of patronising 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,... | |
 | One of 'em - American literature - 1855 - 340 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,... | |
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