“Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none”
“Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.”
“I find, that, in general, alliances based on friendship are the only things that last. Not alliances based on words and letters.”
“Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.”
“A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none.”
“When nations grow old the Arts grow coldAnd commerce settles on every tree”