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By James Buchanan
We ought to cultivate peace, commerce, and friendship with all nations, and this not merely as the best means of promoting our own material interests, but in a spirit of Christian benevolence toward our fellow-men, wherever their lot may be cast.
- Source
- Inaugural Address, March 4, 1857
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- The American Presidency Project, UC Santa Barbara
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From James Buchanan's inaugural address on March 4, 1857, on how the United States should deal with other nations.