Foreign Policy Quotes

Wherever the standard of freedom and Independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benedictions and her prayers be. But she [America] goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy.

Fiat justitia, pereat coelum [Let justice be done, though heaven fall]. My toast would be, may our country be always successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.

This is an existential conflict. It is the kind of conflict that's going to drive our policy and our government for the next 20 or 30 or 40 years. We have to prevail and we have to have the stomach for the fight long term.