Quotes About Isolationism

I think a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn't worked.

The common cause of the massive blindness of the Chinese officials in the nineteenth century was a huge Chinese philosophical assumption that China was a great self-sufficient Middle Kingdom that did not need to engage the world. As the Chinese emperor Qianlong famously told Lord Macartney, China had everything it needed. It didn't need the rest of the world. That painful century of humiliation finally led to China opening up.

close cooperation with Saudi Arabia against the Shiite Houthis in Yemen. Apparently, Trump figured that to demand cessations of these operations that others had started would call upon him the wrath of hawkish Republicans and fuel charges of isolationism

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When you close down your borders, you're helping people build up a lot of hate toward you. That ungenerosity is not only not very attractive, from a moral and social standpoint, but also it's not very effective as a means of defending the country.

I am filled with conviction that the interests of humanity would be best served if the United States remained true to its traditions and kept out of "entangling alliances.

Curious: At the very moment modern technology annuls all frontiers and distances (flying, wireless, television, economic interdependance), the most extreme nationalism is raging.

My vision is to put this country and the British people first and for us to divorce ourselves from political union and re-engage with the rest of the world.

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.

Upon closer examination, it's obvious that the history of modern conservative is permeated with racism, extremism, conspiracy-mongering, isolationism and know-nothingism.

by 2016 the wealthy, selfish countries of the European Union were rich enough to take care of themselves. Jeffersonian neo-isolationists wanted the United States to define its interests as narrowly as possible, to withdraw from contested theaters like the Middle East, to scale back and even to eliminate the American commitment to Europe, and to avoid military engagement wherever possible.

The reality is when you make 'America First' a bumper sticker and pump it overseas, what you're telling them is 'America Only'.

Influential Americans such as Charles Lindbergh opposed war with the Nazis under the slogan "America First." It is those who were considered exceptional, eccentric, or even insane in their own time—those who did not change when the world around them did—whom we remember and admire today.

Influential Americans such as Charles Lindbergh opposed war with the Nazis under the slogan "America First." It

Even arch-isolationists, such as former President Herbert Hoover and Senator Robert Taft of Ohio - two of the most right-wing figures in the Republican Party - insisted on being called liberal.

Earlier ages fortified themselves behind the sovereign state, behind protectionism and militarism.

At this meeting Ribbentrop also assured Ciano that Munich had revealed the strength of the isolationists in the U.S.A. "so that there is nothing to fear from America."10 †

Hand in hand with nationalist economic isolationism, militarism struggles to maintain the sovereign state against the forward march of internationalism.

Maybe Americans feel they don't need the rest of the world anymore, and they wish it would go away. We don't have that option.

Americans might not want to intervene in the outside world, but the outside world will still want to intervene in America.

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And the America Firsters would raise an almighty hue and cry.

Donald Trump's America can be friend and ally, or at least an indifferent power that concentrates on itself and minds its own business.

The isolationists kept up a loud chorus of denunciation and formed the America First Committee to make sure that the 'mistake' of 1917 was not repeated. America First had an amazing range of supporters, from proto-Nazis to socialists – even to the Communist party, which vigorously opposed all American involvement in the 'imperialist' war from the time of the Nazi-Soviet Pact (August 1939) to Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union (June 1941).