Source: Tenth Amendment Center
by Michael Boldin
“Anxious to preserve their hard-won independence, Presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson championed a foreign policy centered on avoiding ‘entangling alliances.’ They envisioned a nation pursuing peace, trade, and ‘friendship with all nations,’ but beholden to none. A major theme of George Washington’s Farewell Address was foreign policy. He advised that the United States should take advantage of its political and geographic situation – a massive physical separation from the old countries – to pursue a truly independent course.” (06/23/24)