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entangling alliances with none

  1. A phrase President Thomas Jefferson used in his first inaugural address in 1801, calling for a cautious, isolationist foreign policy. ( See isolationism .)


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Notes

George Washington had given similar isolationist advice four years earlier in his Farewell Address : “It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.”

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