text: i wish that all nations may recover and retain their independence that those which are overgrown may not advance beyond safe measures of power that a salutary balance may be ever maintained among nations and that our peace commerce and friendship may be sought and cultivated by all it is our business to manufacture for ourselves whatever we can to keep our markets open for what we can spare or want and the less we have to do with the amities or enmities of europe the better not in our day but at no distant one we may shake a rod over the heads of all which may make the stoutest of them tremble