...choose between peace and war as our interests, guided by our Justice, shall counsel... . Why forgo the advantages of so peculiar a situation? —Why quit our own to stand on foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace...

...clear of permanent alliance with any portion of the foreign world." In the same speech he also said: "Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any...the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice?" Two years later, Thomas Jefferson wrote to Thomas Lomax: "Commerce with all nations,...

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...nations was disinclined, as George Washington put it in his farewell address of 1796, to "interweav[e] our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle...the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice." Instead, America should "steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of...

...1796, George Washington famously warned against "the insidious wiles of foreign influence" and asked, "Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, en tangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or...