"It is our policy to steer clear of……" — George Washington
"It is our policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world."
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525 Quotes by George Washington
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The value of liberty was thus enhanced in our estimation by the difficulty of its attainment, and the worth of…
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To please everybody is impossible; were I to undertake it, I should probably please nobody.
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The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respected Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted…
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I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part…
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[Let] the poor the needy and oppressed of the Earth, and those who want Land, resort to the fertile lands…
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The policy or advantage of [immigration] taking place in a body (I mean the settling of them in a body)…
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I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.
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The advancement of agriculture, commerce and manufactures, by all proper means, will not, I trust, need recommendation. But I cannot…
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Every post is honourable in which a man can serve his country.
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To place any dependence upon militia, is, assuredly, resting upon a broken staff.
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Make the most of the Indian Hemp Seed and sow it everywhere.
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The United States is in no way founded upon the Christian religion
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The alliance should agree... to an effective NATO role against the new threats presented by international terrorism and weapons of…
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My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance…
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President Obama is determined that our foreign and national security policies not play into al-Qa'ida's strategy or its warped ideology.…
— John O. Brennan
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Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or…
— H. Rap Brown
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To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom…
— James Buchanan
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Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one…
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I think that we had a different view of what the 21st century could be like, with much more of…
— Madeleine Albright
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It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners…
— Fred Allen
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Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with…
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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In this new wave of technology, you can't do it all yourself, you have to form alliances.
— Carlos Slim
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We cannot enter into alliance with neighbouring princes until we are acquainted with their designs. We are not fit to…
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