“[N]o pretext, arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.”

—  John Adams

Treaty with the bey of Tunis https://web.archive.org/web/20150712204904/http://iipdigital.usembassy.gov/st/english/publication/2013/11/20131104285694.html#axzz3sjER1BV1 (1797).
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