No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity

A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society

We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties, and history bears witness to the fact that a just nation is trusted o

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

Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.

The road of isolationism and protectionism ... ends in danger and decline. I am for free commerce with all nations, political connection with none.