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Let commerce go wherever individual, and consequently national interest, will carry it; but let us never connect ourselves politically with any nation whatever.
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gutenberg.orgAlbert Beveridge: “Let commerce go wherever individual, and consequently national interest, will carry it; but let us never connect…”
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Beveridge emphasizes the importance of economic freedom without political entanglements.
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