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By Franklin Pierce
We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.
- Source
- Inaugural Address, March 4, 1853
- Read at
- The American Presidency Project, UC Santa Barbara
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From Franklin Pierce's inaugural address on March 4, 1853, on how the United States should deal with other countries.