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corner.nationalreview.com - 8/15/2008
A Republic or an Empire?
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Thomas Jefferson in 1823, expressing the view, shared in one way or another by virtually all the Founders, that the United States ought to stick to its knitting: Our first and fundamental maxim must be never to entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe. President George W. Bush, in his second inaugural address, expressing the view that the United States ought, so to speak, to give knitting ...

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Stubborn Facts — ... What makes Rich's posting particularly ironic is that his colleague Peter Robinson posted earlier in the day on the same blog, quoting Thomas Jefferson's harmonization with Washington: "Our first and fundamental maxim must be never to entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe." Robinson cuts the quote off too early, though. Jefferson went on to say - this is from an 1823 letter to James Monroe - that America "has a set of interests distinct from those of Europe and peculiarly her own. She should therefore have a system of her own, separate and apart from that of Europe. While ...

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