Special Message
08/03/1790
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
The nation that expects to be ignorant and free, expects what never was and never will be.
A government that governs least is best.
The duty of holding a neutral conduct may be inferred, without any thing more, from the obligation which justice and hum...