"Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and Morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be, that good policy does not equally enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great Nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. Who can doubt, that, in the course of time and things, the fruits of such a plan would richly repay any temporary advantages, which might be lost by a steady adherence to it?"
- George Washington, Farewell Address, 1796
Washington is urging future American leaders to
A) remind citizens to be tolerant of their differences.
B) prevent the U.S. from entering into foreign relations.
C) let morality guide their future foreign policy decisions.
D) keep freedom of religion the most important American right.