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5614. NATION (United States), Liberality.—

I am in all cases for a liberal conduct
towards other nations, believing that the
practice of the same friendly feelings and
generous dispositions, which attach individuals
in private life, will attach societies on
the larger scale, which are composed of in
dividuals.—
To Albert Gallatin. Ford ed., viii, 222.
(M. 1803)