The United States cannot engage in any form of competition with us, from athletics to diplomacy, without using foul play. They must win, if not by fair skill, then by prearranged trickery or violence; if not by open negotiation, then by garbled maps and... A.L.A. Booklist - Page 1291912Full view - About this book
| Sir John William Fortescue - Great Britain - 1911 - 308 pages
...esteem a good bargain, even if gained by dishonourable means, to mark the highest form of ability. The United States cannot engage in any form of competition...from athletics to diplomacy, without using foul play. They must win, if not by fair skill, then by pre-arranged trickery or violence ; if not by open negotiations,... | |
| John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - History - 1912 - 980 pages
...they esteem a good bargain, even if gained by dishonorable means, to mark the highest form of ability. The United States cannot engage in any form of competition...from athletics to diplomacy, without using foul play. They must win, if not by fair skill, then by prearranged trickery or violence; if not by open negotiation,... | |
| John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - History - 1912 - 980 pages
...they esteem a good bargain, even if gained by dishonorable means, to mark the highest form of ability. The United States cannot engage in any form of competition...from athletics to diplomacy, without using foul play. They must win, if not by fair skill. then by prearranged trickery or violence; if not by open negotiation,... | |
| Alfred Edward Newton - Bible - 1925 - 598 pages
...Americans esteem a good bargain, even if gained by dishonorable means, to mark the highest form of ability. The United States cannot engage in any form of competition...from athletics to diplomacy, without using foul play. They must win, if not by fair skill then by prearranged trickery or violence; if not by open negotiations,... | |
| Great Britain - 1923 - 926 pages
...United States, and more particularly the words contained in the following really astounding sentence : ' The United States cannot engage in any form of competition with us (the British people), from athletics to diplomacy, without using foul play.' Mr. Fortescue has explained... | |
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