"There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard."

Diplomacy, Experience, Cure, Error, Favors

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"There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard."

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"We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience."

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"I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent."

Identity

"The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon."

Patriotism

"It is better to be alone than in bad company."

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"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence."

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"Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe."

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"Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder."

Wisdom

"Heaven itself has ordained the right."

Justice

"Hence, likewise, they will avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments, which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to Republican Liberty. In this sense it is, that your Union ought to be considered as a main prop of your liberty, and that the love of the one ought to endear to you the preservation of the other."

Union

"Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest."

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