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Statesmanship Quotes and Quotations
Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states. Learn to think continentally. Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations - entangling alliances with none. 'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances, with any portion of the foreign world - as far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it. You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency. An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth.
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