Posted on 03/04/2009 8:37:41 AM PST by the invisib1e hand
"Harmony, liberal intercourse with all Nations, are recommended by policy, humanity and interest. But even our Commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand: neither seeking nor granting exclusive favours or preferences; consulting the natural course of things; diffusing and diversifying by gentle means the streams of Commerce, but forcing nothing; establishing with Powers so disposed; in order to give trade a stable course."--George Washington, Farewell Address, 19 September 1796
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The Father of our Country, what a brilliant man. Obama would do well to heed his advice today.
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.
. . . . . John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Inauguration Address, 20 January, 1961
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