It is accordance with our determination to refrain from aggression and build up a sentiment and practice among nations more favora...ble to peace ... that we have incurred the consent of fourteen important nations to the negotiation of a treaty condemning recourse to war, renouncing it as an instrument of national policy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
His mind was strong and clear, his will was unwavering, his convictions were uncompromising, his imagination was powerful enough t...o invest all plans of national policy with a poetic charm.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The policy of this country is a canal under American control. The United States cannot consent to the surrender of this control to... any European power.... The capital invested by corporations or citizens of other countries in such an enterprise must in a great degree look for protection to one or more of the great powers of the world. No European power can intervene for such protection without adopting measures on this continent which the United States would deem wholly inadmissible. If the protection of the United States is relied upon, The United States must exercise such control as will enable this country to protect its national interests.... An interoceanic canal across the American Isthmus ... would be the great ocean thoroughfare between our Atlantic and our Pacific shores, and virtually a part of the coastline of the United States. Our merely commercial interest in it is greater than that of all other countries, while its relations to our power and prosperity as a nation, to our means of defense, our unity, peace, and safety, are matters of paramount concern to the people of the United States.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Maybe it's understandable what a history of failures America's foreign policy has been. We are, after all, a country full of peopl...e who came to America to get away from foreigners. Any prolonged examination of the U.S. government reveals foreign policy to be America's miniature schnauzer--a noisy but small and useless part of the national household.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In brief, we have no explicit family policy but instead have a haphazard patchwork of institutions and programs designed mostly un...der crisis conditions, whether the crisis is national in scope (such as a recession ) or personal (such as a break-up of a particular family).LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We should have an army so organized and so officered as to be capable in time of emergency, in cooperation with the National Milit...ia, and under the provision of a proper national volunteer law, rapidly to expand into a force sufficient to resist all probable invasion from abroad and to furnish a respectable expeditionary force if necessary in the maintenance of our traditional American policy which bears the name of President Monroe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... we shall never become an immense power in the world until we concentrate all our money and editorial forces upon one great nat...ional daily newspaper, so we can sauce back our opponents every day in the year; once a month or once a week is not enough.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »