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Isolationism and self-reliance

There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favors from nation to nation.

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Author Greg RavenPosted on March 13, 2022Categories foreign policyTags George Washington

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“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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