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Foreign Policy Quotes by George Washington
- But if we are to be told by a foreign Power . . . what we shall do, and what we shall not do, we…
- My ardent desire is, and my aim has been . . . to comply strictly with all our engagements foreign and domestic; but to keep…
- Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, (I conjure you to believe me fellow citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly…
- Honesty will be found on every experiment, to be the best and only true policy; let us then as a Nation be just.
- 'Tis folly in one Nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its Independence for whatever it…
- My policy has been, and will continue to be, while I have the honor to remain in the administration of the government, to be upon…
- My anxious recollections, my sympathetic feeling, and my best wishes are irresistibly excited whensoever, in any country, I see an oppressed nation unfurl the banners…
- The nation which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its…
- Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one…
- Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence . . . the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake.
- The duty of holding a Neutral conduct may be inferred, without any thing more, from the obligation which justice and humanity impose on every nation,…
- I rejoice that liberty . . . now finds an asylum in the bosom of a regularly organized government; a government, which, being formed to…
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