Quotes About Isolationism

National polls showed that when England and France declared war on Germany, in 1939, less than 10 percent of our population favored a similar course for America.

But now, we are becoming suspicious of the very things we have long celebrated - free markets, trade, immigration, and technological change. And all this is happening when the tide is going our way. Just as the world is opening up, America is closing down.

Coming back from the G20 summit, Trump was editing an upcoming speech with Porter. Scribbling his thoughts in neat, clean penmanship, the president wrote, "TRADE IS BAD." Though he never said it in a speech, he had finally found the summarizing phrase and truest expression of his protectionism, isolationism and fervent American nationalism.

Our view is that economic isolationism is the wrong way to go. Vibrant, successful growing economies that advance the interests of their citizens engage the global economy. And, we're committed to engaging the global economy.

Ultraliberalism today translates into a whimpering isolationism in foreign policy, a mulish obstructionism in domestic policy.

Ultraliberalism today translates into a whimpering isolationism in foreign policy, a mulish obstructionism in domestic policy, and a pusillanimous pussyfooting on the critical issue of law and order.

America First often meant America Only.

Of course, isolationism will not keep America isolated.

Kneejerk interventionism or kneejerk isolationism is the wrong course for Britain.

In both British and American history, fervent imperialism has always coexisted with bouts of fierce isolationism.

Isolationism is not leadership.

I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.

Perfectionism, no less than isolationism or imperialism or power politics, may obstruct the paths to international peace. Let us not forget that the retreat to isolationism a quarter of a century ago was started not by a direct attack against international cooperation but against the alleged imperfections of the peace.

If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it.

If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it.

America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.

Isolation disfigures men Who think their separateness superior.

That was the inherent contradiction. This was a nation backed into a corner. They did not want to open up, and yet they had no choice but to move toward engagement if they wanted to survive. They had built the entire foundation of their country on isolationism and wanting to kill Americans and South Koreans, yet they needed to learn English and feed their children with foreign money.

Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none

America is turning inward, and that's making the whole world a more dangerous place.

The more Trump emphasises America First, the more it turns into America Alone.

How horrible, fantastic, incredible, it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing.

What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.