...isolationism. Washington's farewell (1796) expressed the sentiment of separation from the Old World: 'Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course.' Jefferson's inaugural captured the intention in a much more quotable form: 'peace. commerce and honest...

...compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation. . . . Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none or a very remote relation. Hence she must...invites and enables us to pursue a different course. If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy...

...essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves to artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her...invites and enables us to pursue a different course. If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy...

...artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics or in the ordinary combinations and the collisions of her friendships or enmities. "Our detached...invites and enables us to pursue a different course. If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy...

...isolationism. Washington's farewell (1796) expressed the sentiment of separation from the Old World: 'Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course.' Jefferson's inaugural captured the intention in a much more quotable form: 'peace, commerce and honest...

...55ff. 28Ibid., p. 186, quoting the text of the Address. Washington rejected this contention in advance. Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. If we remain in one People, under an efficient government, the period is not far off, when we may defy...

...the applause and confidence of the people to surrender their interests. The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our...invites and enables us to pursue a different course. If we remain one people under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy material...

...make permanent alliances, also bears witness to a particular way of seeing international relations: Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off, when we may defy...

...Washington wrote: Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none or a very remote relation.... Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy...

...and which may be looked upon as his political bequest to the country: 'The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our...invites and enables us to pursue a different course. If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy...