It’s from Thomas Jefferson’s inaugural address, 1801 ... the next line in that was “entangling alliances with none”...
Jefferson’s inaugural address... 
... now difficult tho not to imagine Jefferson in the form of the Deep South jazz singer/rap battle participant who sat out the War of independence in Paris from @HamiltonMusical rather than the one on Mount Rushmore
Which is as good an opportunity as ever to point out that the hilarious @HamiltonMusical depiction of King George airily dismissing the chances of the USA succeeding independently could be seen as having a Brexit parallel...
Though if anyone can write a cabinet rap battle between say Hammond and Johnson about frictionless trade I’d be impressed ... that said @Lin_Manuel wrote one about the federalisation of fiscal debts between Jefferson and Hamilton, so ...
