Peace and commerce with foreign nations could be more effectually and cheaply cultivated by a common agent; therefore they gave the Federal Government the sole management of our relations with foreign governments.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I believe mutual respect for one another and cooperation should be the basis for relationships with foreign nations.
A great nation like the United States has many and varied interests, and we need both to do business with tyrants and to engage constantly in multilateral diplomacy.
Because countries often have differing political and economic systems, agreements are needed to protect those invested in trade.
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
The fact is that co-operation between independent countries - to our mutual advantage - is the way of the modern world.
So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations.
The U.S. economy and workers benefit from a strong, healthy relationship between government and business.
Relations between countries are built on values and interests and many other things, but at the end of the day, leaders are also only human beings.
Governments follow their people. A great deal has to do with the vision of the leadership of governments. They have a vision, and they translate that to their people and to their counterparts in other countries. You can fulfill and achieve a great deal if you get along well as individuals, as people, as persons.
Let a durable and firm peace be established and this government be confined rigidly to the few great objects for which it was instituted, leaving the States to contend in generous rivalry to develop, by the arts of peace, their respective resources, and a scene of prosperity and happiness would follow, heretofore unequaled on the globe.