Foreign Policy Quotes

363 Foreign Policy quotes by 213 unique authors

The honor of a nation is its life. Deliberately to abandon it is to commit an act of political suicide. — Alexander Hamilton
The Achaeans soon experienced, as often happens, that a victorious and powerful ally is but another name for a master. — Alexander Hamilton
The principal purposes to be answered by union are these the common defense of the members; the preservation of the public peace as well against… — Alexander Hamilton
That there may happen cases in which the national government may be necessitated to resort to force, cannot be denied. — Alexander Hamilton
They whose minds are least sensitive to calamity, and whose hands are most quick to meet it, are the greatest men and the greatest communities. — Thucydides
Far from being reluctantly propelled into hostilities by popular war fever, leaders incite that fever in order to gather support for their war policies. Thereby… — Michael Parenti
The conservative goal has been the Third Worldization of the United States: an increasingly underemployed, lower-wage work-force; a small but growing moneyed class that pays… — Michael Parenti
No system in history capitalism has been more relentless in battering down ancient and fragile cultures, devouring the resources of whole regions, pulverizing centuries-old practices… — Michael Parenti
The first law of the market is to make the largest possible profit from other people's labor or go out of business. Profitability rather than… — Michael Parenti
Generosity toward the lower classes historically has never been an important part of upper-class awareness. — Michael Parenti
In societies that worship money and success, the losers become objects of scorn. Those who work the hardest for the least are called lazy. Those… — Michael Parenti
Only by establishing military supremacy were the European and North American colonizers able to eliminate the crafts and industries of Third World peoples, control their… — Michael Parenti
Capital requires protection, as do the institutions through which it operates. As capital expands its operations, the state that is associated with its protection must… — Michael Parenti
A huge national security state has developed in the United States since World War II. Its function is to buttress anticommunist, procapitalist governments and undermine… — Michael Parenti
A nation as such does not give aid to another nation. More precisely, the common citizens of our country, through their taxes, give to the… — Michael Parenti
I spent thirty-three years in the Marines, most of my time being a hlgh class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the… — Michael Parenti
I had a swell racket. I was rewarded with honors, medals, promotions. l might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could… — Michael Parenti
I believe that if we had and would keep our dirty, bloody, dollar-soaked fingers out of the business of these nations so full of depressed,… — Michael Parenti
For the last fifty years we've been supporting right-wing governments, and that is a puzzlement to me...I don't understand what there is in the American… — Michael Parenti
I dream that someday the United States will be on the side of the peasants in some civil war. I dream that we will be… — Michael Parenti
The US government is usually on the wrong side against the poor and downtrodden, because the wrong side is the right side, given the class… — Michael Parenti
Just as the power of the feudal aristocracy had to be broken in order for capitalism to emerge fully, so must imperialism and capitalism in… — Michael Parenti
We also think this is a reminder of the long tradition of bipartisan foreign policy that has been the hallmark of America at moments of… — Barack Obama
Our greatest foreign policy problem is our divisions at home. Our greatest foreign policy need is national cohesion and a return to the awareness that… — Henry A. Kissinger
For more than a half a century, we know that we prospered because of a bipartisan consensus on defense and foreign policy. We must do… — Hillary Clinton

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