"the great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as . europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none; or a very remote relation. hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities it is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign " this quotation represents a major principle of us foreign policy known as first espoused in the famous farewell address by president george washington. a) emancipation b) belligerence c) interposition d) neutrality