Friendly relations with all, but entangling alliances with none, has long been a maxim with us. Our true mission is not to propagate our opinions, or impose upon other countries our form of government, by artifice or force; but to teach by example, and... Annual Register - Sivu 213muokkaaja - 1852Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
| Phineas Camp Headley - 1852 - 470 sivua
...recall to your memory this word of the present Annual Message of his Excellency President Fillmore: " Let every people choose for itself, and make and alter...its political institutions to suit its own condition ana convenience." Here again I take my ground upon the principle established by Washington—making... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1852 - 562 sivua
...countries our form of government by artifice or force; but to teach by example, an^ show by our success, moderation and justice, the blessings of self-government, and the advantages of free institutions.'' AET. IX. — 1. Travels in America. By the RIGHT HON. THE EARL or CARLISLE, (Lord Morpeth.) New York... | |
| Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1852 - 578 sivua
...either independent or free. "Our mission," he says, " is to teach by example, and show by our success, moderation, and justice, the blessings of selfgovernment and the advantages of free institutions." Here is the avowal of a mission of propagandism, and the assumption that it is from us the nations... | |
| United States. Congress - 1852 - 926 sivua
...time, the acknowledged principle of international law, that " every nation shall have the right to make and alter its political institutions to suit its own condition and convenience." This principle is one of the utmost value in itself, and not less important to us than to other civilized... | |
| Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1852 - 580 sivua
...prudent, and chooses to make others fight its battles ! •• Let every people choose for itself, make and alter its political institutions to suit its own condition and convenience." Very well; but the right of a people to choose for itself, and to adopt such institutions as it judges... | |
| United States. President - 1854 - 574 sivua
...countries our form of government, by artifice or force ; but to teach by example, and show by our success, moderation, and justice, the blessings of self-government,...ourselves, we are anxious to see the same forbearance on the part of other nations, whose forms of government are different from our own. The deep interest... | |
| L. Kossuth - 1854 - 482 sivua
...to your memory this word of the present annual message of his Excellency President Fillmore: — " Let every people choose for itself, and make and alter...institutions to suit its own condition and convenience." I beg leave also to quote the statement of your present Secretary of State, Mr. Webster, who, in his... | |
| L. Kossuth - 1854 - 472 sivua
...present annual message of his Excellency President Fillmore: —" Let every people choose for itstlf, and make and alter its political institutions to suit its own condition and convenience." I beg leave also to quote the statement of your present Secretary of State, Mr. Webster, who, in his... | |
| 1853 - 86 sivua
...countries our form of government, by artifice or force, but to teach by example, and show hy our success, moderation, and justice, the blessings of self-government, and the advantages of free institutions. IV. That where the people make and control the Government, they should obey its constitution. laws,... | |
| Ivory Chamberlain, Thomas Moses Foote - 1856 - 244 sivua
...countries our form of government, by artifice or force: but to teach by example, and show by our success, moderation and justice, the blessings of self-government,...ourselves, we are anxious to see the same forbearance on the part of other nations, whose forms of government arc different from our own. The deep interest... | |
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