Foreign Policy Quotes

363 Foreign Policy quotes by 213 unique authors

[I]t seems that the Cannibals of Europe are going to eat one another again. A war between Russia and Turkey is like the battle of… — Thomas Jefferson
I hope we shall prove how much happier for man the Quaker policy is, and that the life of the feeder is better than that… — Thomas Jefferson
It is a principle incorporated into the settled policy of America, that as peace is better than war, war is better than tribute. — James Madison
We wish the happiness and prosperity of every nation. — Thomas Jefferson
[A] spirit of justice and friendly accomodation...is our duty and our interest to cultivate with all nations. — Thomas Jefferson
My anxious recollections, my sympathetic feeling, and my best wishes are irresistibly excited whensoever, in any country, I see an oppressed nation unfurl the banners… — George Washington
The nation which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its… — George Washington
The rights of neutrality will only be respected when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the… — Alexander Hamilton
Let Americans disdain to be the instruments of European greatness! Let the thirteen States, bound together in a strict and indissoluble Union, concur in erecting… — Alexander Hamilton
There is nothing absurd or impracticable in the idea of a league or alliance between independent nations for certain defined purposes precisely stated in a… — Alexander Hamilton
War, like most other things, is a science to be acquired and perfected by diligence, by perserverance, by time, and by practice. — Alexander Hamilton
Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one… — George Washington
By a steady adherence to the Union we may hope, erelong, to become the arbiter of Europe in America, and to be able to incline… — Alexander Hamilton
The treaties of the United States, to have any force at all, must be considered as part of the law of the land. — Alexander Hamilton
Its objects are CONTRACTS with foreign nations which have the force of law, but derive it from the obligations of good faith. — Alexander Hamilton
They are not rules prescribed by the sovereign to the subject, but agreements between sovereign and sovereign. — Alexander Hamilton
Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence . . . the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake. — George Washington
A nation has a right to manage its own concerns as it thinks fit. — Alexander Hamilton
Every nation ought to have a right to provide for its own happiness. — Alexander Hamilton
The duty of holding a Neutral conduct may be inferred, without any thing more, from the obligation which justice and humanity impose on every nation,… — George Washington
Enemies in War, in Peace Friends. — Thomas Jefferson
I rejoice that liberty . . . now finds an asylum in the bosom of a regularly organized government; a government, which, being formed to… — George Washington
[America's] glory is not dominion, but liberty. Her march is the march of the mind. She has a spear and a shield: but the motto… — John Quincy Adams
Nations do not distrust each other because they are armed. They are armed because they distrust each other. — Ronald Reagan
George, your reckless and wanton foreign policies killed my son, Spc. Casey Austin Sheehan, in the illegal and unjust war on Iraq. Helping to bring… — Cindy Sheehan

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