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"Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto."

"Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government."

"I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind."

"If God is just, I tremble for my country."

"If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest."

"Nations of eternal war [expend] all their energies... in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their people."

"Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted."

"The most successful war seldom pays for its losses."

"The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force."

"To preserve our independence... We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude."

"We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest."

"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty."

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