Quotes About Non-intervention

America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.

I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.

The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.

The United States' job is not to police the whole world.

The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.

I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.

America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.

We do not interfere in U.S. politics... and Europeans expect that America does not interfere in European politics.

I'd advise my American friends not to meddle in the internal affairs of China.

government is best which governs least; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe—That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.

That government is best which governs least;" and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe—"That government is best which governs not at all;

We're not going to meddle in the internal life of other peoples and other governments, because we don't want them meddling in ours.

I mean, I've always been a libertarian. Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they want. Just stay out of everybody else's hair.

As I wrote in 2013, "In the medical field, when a threatening condition is detected that is not immediately causing distress, physicians often counsel 'watchful waiting'. . . . [T]he precautionary principle would weigh heavily in favor of non-intervention because once intervention is imposed, that condition can never be undone, whereas non-intervention can always be countered by intervention.

The statesmen still say that we should not interfere in the internal affairs of other nations and yet it is not possible any longer not to interfere, even when we do not mean to do so.

I mean, I've always been a libertarian. Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they want. Just stay out of everybody else's hair.