A Few Thoughts On The Foreign Policy Of The United States PDF Download

Excerpt from A Few Thoughts on the Foreign Policy of the United States Among the principalities and powers of history, few attract a steadier interest than the Great Republics, which in the grave etiquette of the old diplomacy, were entitled to royal honors. In the action of the past, few move with a statelier step than the magnificent merchants of Venice, and the grave Burghers of the Netherlands. These ministers of mighty Commonwealths, clothed with what in former days might well be called the reverence of office, fronted royal pomp with the ease of high equality; an equality which as portion of the republic they felt to be personal. Combining the shrewd wisdom of business, with the elevation of national consequence, they mingled in the great affairs of the world as advisers or as arbiters. And yet what was the greatest of these republics; nay, what were they all? Venice with its thousand argosies; Netherlands with its accumulated wealth; Switzerland with its stubborn freedom, compared with the Commonwealth of the West. A Government sound - simple - and secure - thirty millions of people strong in arms and all practical arts - intelligent - active and free as no people have ever yet been. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.