“We in America have learned bitter lessons from two world wars: It is better to be here [in Europe] ready to protect the peace, than to take blind shelter across the sea, rushing to respond only after freedom is lost. We've learned that isolationism never was and never will be an acceptable response to tyrannical governments with an expansionist intent.”
Ronald Reagan
“We must reject the idea of isolationism, ... But that doesn't mean we should get involved in every civil war around the world.”
Dan Quayle
“Protectionism is the ally of isolationism, and isolationism is the Dracula of American foreign policy.”
William G. Hyland
“I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”
James Arthur Baldwin
“My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“We don't want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open to America.”
George Bush
“America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.”
Peter Kropotkin
