 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1851 - 954 pages
...honesty is always the best policy. I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in (heir genuine sense ; but in my opinion it is unnecessary,...always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in, a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies."... | |
 | United States, William Hickey - 1851 - 616 pages
...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...is unnecessary, and would be unwise to extend them. 229 Taking care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, on a respectable defensive posture,... | |
 | George Washington - 1852 - 76 pages
...no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is the best policy. I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their...unnecessary, and would be unwise, to extend them* 6 fur faf)tg fyalten, Untrenc gegen befietyenbe SBerbinb* Itcl)feiten in @rf)u& ju nefymem 3rf) I)alte... | |
 | 1853 - 514 pages
...Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor or caprice ? It is our true policy to steer clear...that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat, theiefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But in my opinion, it is unnecessary,... | |
 | Joseph Bartlett Burleigh - 1853 - 354 pages
...that honesty is [always]10" the best policy.) — [I repeat it therefore let those engagements] l03 be observed in their genuine sense. — But in my...respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to [temporary]104 alliances for extraordinary emergencies. Harmony, liberal intercourse with all Nations,... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1854 - 492 pages
...Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice ? " It is our true policy to steer clear...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 it is unnecessary,... | |
 | William Hickey - 1854 - 580 pages
...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...is unnecessary, and would be unwise to extend them, Taking1 care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, on a respectable defensive posture,... | |
 | Furman Sheppard - 1855 - 338 pages
...foreign world ; so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it; for let me not be misunderstood as capable of patronising infidelity to existing engagements....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, it is... | |
 | Furman Sheppard - 1855 - 337 pages
...foreign world ; so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it; for let me not be misunderstood as capable of patronising infidelity to existing engagements....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, it is... | |
 | Furman Sheppard - 1855 - 342 pages
...foreign world ; so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it; for let me not be misunderstood as capable of patronising infidelity to existing engagements....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, it is... | |
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I 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, it is unnecessary and would be unwise... 
