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Foreign Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the states are independent as to everything within themselves and united as…
- I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe. Their political interests are entirely…
- I believe the states can best govern our home concerns and the federal government our foreign ones.
- [T]he States can best govern our home concerns and the general government our foreign ones. I wish, therefore . . . never to see all…
- I have been happy . . . in believing that . . . whatever follies we may be led into as to foreign nations, we…
- I sincerely join you in abjuring all political connection with every foreign power; and tho I cordially wish well to the progress of liberty in…
- I have come to a resolution myself as I hope every good citizen will, never again to purchase any article of foreign manufacture which can…
- I see,... and with the deepest affliction, the rapid strides with which the federal branch of our government is advancing towards the usurpation of all…
- The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the States are independent as to everything within themselves, and united as…
- For the power given to Congress by the Constitution does not extend to the internal regulation of the commerce of a State (that is to…
- To make us one nation as to foreign concerns, and keep us distinct in Domestic ones gives the outline of the proper division of powers…
More Foreign Quotes
- The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service. — Irving Babbitt
- My view of foreign policy is that we need to be careful and circumspect about United States intervention in any foreign nation. — Michele Bachmann
- For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. — Francis Bacon
- It was Queen Elizabeth who made me a foreign correspondent. — Russell Baker
- Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign… — Russell Baker
- American foreign policy had still not recovered from its victory over communism when George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice took over at… — Russell Baker
- Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna… — Russell Baker
- The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as… — Mikhail Bakunin