 | Dugald J. Bannatyne - New York (State) - 1887 - 652 pages
...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 patronising infidelity...that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But, in my opinion, it is unnecessary... | |
 | Pan American Union - America - 1923 - 774 pages
...world. Religion and morality alike enjoin this conduct." And he ended with these words: '' I hold with the maxim, no less applicable to public than to private...affairs, that honesty is always the best policy." Before closing I wish to render a just tribute of gratitude and remembrance to that great American... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Administrative procedure - 1959 - 1668 pages
...reads : "* * * let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing agreements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than...affairs, that honesty is always the best policy." That, too? came from George Washington's Farewell Address. Communist strategy against us is amply explained... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Communism - 1959 - 80 pages
...reads : "* * * let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing agreements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than...affairs, that honesty is always the best policy." That, too, came from George Washington's Farewell Address. Communist strategy against us is amply explained... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1864 - 696 pages
...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 maxim no less applicable to pubh'c than to private affairs, that honesty is the best policy. I repeat, therefore, let those engagements... | |
 | United States - 1980 - 272 pages
...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 maxim...that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But in my opinion it is unnecessary... | |
 | Myres S Mac Dougal, William Michael Reisman - Law - 1985 - 490 pages
...literature between the morality of individuals and the morality of states. He renounces the ration d'etat: "I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs ..." This is a precept to which many Americans would still adhere in spite of the number of times history... | |
 | Hans Ester, Hans Hecker, Erika Poettgens - Europe, Central - 1993 - 372 pages
...von George Washington, in seiner Abschiedsadresse vom 17. September 17% an das Volk, beherzigen: / hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs that honesty is the best policy. Man wird auch alle jene äußeren Formen einführen und respektieren müssen, die... | |
 | Charles W. Freeman, Jr. - 1995 - 616 pages
...diplomatic life, where no two ambassadors represent identical interests." Charles W. Thayer, 1959 Honesty: "I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private life that honesty is always the best policy." George Washington Honor "A really great people, proud... | |
 | Anders Breidlid - Art - 1996 - 428 pages
...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 maxim...that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But in my opinion it is unnecessary... | |
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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... 
