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By Zachary Taylor
As American freemen we can not but sympathize in all efforts to extend the blessings of civil and political liberty, but at the same time we are warned by the admonitions of history and the voice of our own beloved Washington to abstain from entangling alliances with foreign nations.
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- Inaugural Address, March 5, 1849
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- The American Presidency Project, UC Santa Barbara
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From Taylor's inaugural address on March 5, 1849, in the passage on foreign policy. He pairs sympathy for liberty abroad with Washington's warning against entangling alliances.