Isolationism Quotes

“To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will dispute.”

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

“We cannot build a wall around the United States and we should not want to.”

“In the past, we have repudiated foreign alliances and foreign entanglements, and we should do so again.”

“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 to do so.”

“We need to be engaged in the world, not isolated from it.”

“We're not going to be the world's policeman.”

“A country that is not open to the world is a country that is going to wither.”

“We do not mean to be entangled. We will not be entangled.”

“I believe we can have a safer, more prosperous, and more peaceful world if we mind our own business.”

“We can't be the world's policeman, but we can't be an ostrich either, sticking our head in the sand.”

“Isolationism is the name we give to a foreign policy we don't like.”

“It is my conclusion that the United Nations has become a trap. Let's go it alone.”