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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

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Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace

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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.

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Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none