The American Political Classics : Jefferson, Washington And Lincoln
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"Taking care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, on a respectable de- fensive posture, we may safely trust to tem- porary alliances for extraordinary emergen- cies. "Harmony, liberal intercourse with all na- tions, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest. But even our commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand; neither seeking nor granting exclusive favors or preferences; consulting the natural course of things; diffusing and diversifying by gentle mea...ns the streams of commerce, but forcing nothing; establishing with powers so dis- posed, in order to give trade a stable course, to define the rights of our merchants, and to enable the government to support them, con- ventional rules of intercourse, the best that present circumstances and mutual opinion will permit, but temporary, and liable to be 40 AMERICAN POLITICAL CLASSICS from time to time abandoned or varied, as experience and circumstances shall dictate; constantly keeping in view, that it is folly in one nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a por- tion of its independence for whatever it may accept under that character; that, by such acceptance, it may place itself in the condi- tion of having given equivalents for nominal favors, and yet of being reproached with in- gratitude for not giving more.
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