 | 1854 - 400 pages
...keeping in view that 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 in that character ; that by such acceptance it may place itself in the condition of having given equivalents... | |
 | 1855 - 512 pages
...k^enine in view that it is folly in one nation to look for disinterested favors from another ; that it must pay with a portion of its independence for...condition of having given equivalents for nominal favors, and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more. There can be nc greater error... | |
 | One of 'em - 1855 - 330 pages
...keeping in view, that it is folly in one nation to look for disinterested favors from another ; that it must pay with a portion of its independence for...condition of having given equivalents for nominal favors, and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more. Fhere can be no greater error... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations - 1982 - 362 pages
...nation to look for disinterested favors from another. ". . . It may place itself in the condition ... of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving...greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure." Commerce has changed.... | |
 | Robert A. Pastor - 1987 - 432 pages
...Washington's warning that "itisfpllym one nation to look for disinterested favors frqm another; ... it must pay with a portion of its independence for whatever it may accept." The price paid to the Soviet bloc for aid is large, but privately contracted; the United States generally... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 pages
...(191 2-89). US historian. -How We Entered World War I," in New York Times Magazine (5 May 1967). 10 an. Memoirs of my Ufe (1796; published in Routledgc, Autobiography, 1 favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought... | |
 | Various - 1994 - 676 pages
...keeping in view, that it is folly in one nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its independence for...condition of having given equivalents for nominal favors, and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more. There can be no greater error... | |
 | Charles W. Freeman, Jr. - 1995 - 616 pages
...favor is to sell your liberty." ("Beneficium accipere, überteuern vendere"} Latin proverb Favore: "There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favors from nation to nation." George Washington, 1789 Final act: A formal summary statement at the... | |
 | Stanley M. Elkins, Eric McKitrick - 1995 - 952 pages
...is "folly in one nation to look for disinterested favors from another," and the nation that does so "must pay with a portion of its independence for whatever it may accept under that character."8 Washington indicates how he himself has tried to follow these rules, the basis for his... | |
 | Anders Breidlid - 1996 - 432 pages
...keeping in view that it is folly in one nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its independence for...condition of having given equivalents for nominal favors, and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more. There can be no greater error... | |
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There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard. 
