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  • I sincerely join you in abjuring all political connection with every foreign power; and tho I cordially wish well to the progress of liberty in all nations, and would forever give it the weight of our countenance, yet they are not to be touched without contamination from their other bad principles. Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.

    Thomas Jefferson (1950). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 31: 1 February 1799 to 31 May 1800”, p.78, Princeton University Press
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