Quotes About Nonalignment

In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy so to do.

Cambodia wanted no part of SEATO. We would look after ourselves as neutrals and Buddhists.

We have stood apart, studiously neutral.

The United States must be neutral in fact as well as in name…. We must be impartial in thought as well as in action.

I don't want to be identified with any political party.

My standpoint is armed neutrality.

I'm not an American any more, nor a New Yorker, and even less a European, or a Parisian. I haven't any allegiance, any responsibilities, any hatreds, any worries, any prejudices, any passion. I'm neither for nor against. I'm a neutral.

In no case can I permit myself to be a candidate of any party or yield myself to any party schemes.

I never aligned myself specifically with the anti-war movement.

I have always regarded nonalignment as a statement that India's policies - foreign policy - will be guided by what I describe as 'enlightened national interest.' That means we will make judgments on an independent basis with the sole concern being what is enlightened India's national interest.

To my mind, what we ought to have maintained from the beginning was the strictest neutrality. If we had done this, I do not believe we would have been on the verge of war at the present time.