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Taiwan Relations Act — Part 3 14 July 2004 2004 Ron Paul 56:1 Mr. PAUL. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. 2004 Ron Paul 56:2 Let me just restate my general position, because my defense is that of a foreign policy of nonintervention, sincerely believing it is in the best interests of our people and the world that we get less involved militaristically. 2004 Ron Paul 56:3 Once again, I would like to make the point that if it is a true and correct principle because of its age, it is not negated. If it is a true principle and worked 200 years ago or 400 years ago, it is still a principle today; and it should not be discarded. 2004 Ron Paul 56:4 I would like to just close with quoting from the Founders. First, very simply, from Jefferson. His advice was, “Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.” 2004 Ron Paul 56:5 John Quincy Adams: “Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benedictions, and her prayers be. But she goes,” and “she” is referring to us, the United States, “but she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. She will commend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example.” 2004 Ron Paul 56:6 And our first President. He is well- known for his farewell address, and in that address he says, “Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest. But even our commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand: neither seeking nor granting exclusive favors or preferences; consulting the natural course of things; diffusing and diversifying by gentle means the streams of commerce, but forcing nothing.” 2004 Ron Paul 56:7 Force gets us nowhere. Persuasion is the answer. Peace and commerce is what we should pursue. 2004 Ron Paul 56:8 Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.

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