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As he left the presidency in 1796, George Washington wrote a farewell address to the American people.

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But even our commercial policy should and impartial hand: neither seeking nor granting exclusive favors or preferences: ... diffusing and diversifying by gentle means the streams of commerce but forcing nothing; establishing with powers so disposed-.. . conventional rules of intercourse, . . . constantly keeping in view, that it is folly in one nation to look for disinterested favors from another-that it must pay with a portion of its independence for whatever it may accept under that character.

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