Perfectionism, no less than isolationism or imperialism or power politics, may obstruct the paths to international peace. Let us not forget that… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Others saw in the trend still another instance of a disturbing tendency in the American suburb: the longing for withdrawal, for self-enclosure,… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
Jeffersonian isolationism expressed an essentially cosmopolitan spirit. The Jeffersonian was determined - even at the expense of separating himself from the rest… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Interventionism is inextricable from the American idea. If the United States retreats into isolationism, it ceases to be itself ? a nation… — Roger Cohen Copy Share Image
Contrasting British servicemen and women with the appeasers, it is hard not to laugh. Are these two sides even the same species,… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
We must open our eyes and see that modern civilization has become so complex and the lives of civilized men so interwoven… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution.… — W. Averell Harriman Copy Share Image
“The consensus that had sustained our postwar foreign policy had evaporated. The men and women who had sustained our international commitments and… — Henry Kissinger Copy Share Image
“This is the pattern of American foreign policy: from isolationism to interventionism, from withdrawal to crusading and back again. As a self-proclaimed… — John Spanier Copy Share Image
Even if we never reach the stars by our own efforts, in the millions of years that lie ahead it is almost… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“I have been taunted on various platforms recently for becoming a neo-conservative, and have been the object of some fascinating web-site and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In the time just before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, when Perfidia opens, we were pre-psychologized. There were no concepts of identity,… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
“Do nothing” had long been viewed as an unacceptable position of helplessness by American foreign policy experts. The instinct to do something… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“That war [Bosnian war] in the early 1990s changed a lot for me. I never thought I would see, in Europe, a… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
![“That war [Bosnian war] in the early 1990s changed a lot for me. I never thought I would see, in Europe, a full-dress reprise of internment camps, the mass murder of civilians, the reinstiutution of torture and rape as acts of policy. And I didn't expect so many of my comrades to be indifferent…” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/872/christopher-hitchens-117_anti-war_that-war-bosnian-war-in-the-early-1990s_3077861.jpg)