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6701. POLICY (American), Great Britain and.—

With respect to the English government,
or policy, as concerning themselves
or other nations, we wish not to intermeddle
in word or deed, and that it be not understood
that our government permits itself to
entertain either a will or opinion on the subject.—
To Thomas Pinckney. Washington ed. iii, 442. Ford ed., vi, 75.
(Pa., 1792)