quotes tagged with 'foreignpolicy', page 2 
How far can you go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?
Author: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Source: UnknownSaved by cboyack in defense war foreignpolicy destruction innervessel 2 years ago[save this] [permalink]Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
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The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement.
We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.
This is, I repeat, the best way of life to be found on the road the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron. . . .
This is one of those times in the affairs of nations when the gravest choices must be made, if there is to be a turning toward a just and lasting peace. It is a moment that calls upon the governments of the world to speak their intentions with simplicity and with honesty. It calls upon them to answer the question that stirs the hearts of all sane men: is there no other way the world may live?
We see that war is incompatible with Christ's teachings. The gospel of Jesus Christ is the gospel of peace. War is its antithesis and produces hate. It is vain to attempt to reconcile war with true Christianity. There are, however, two conditions which may justify a truly Christian man to enter, mind you, I say enter, not begin, a war: (1) an attempt to dominate and to deprive another of his free agency, and (2) loyalty to his country. Possibly there is a third, viz., defense of a weak nation that is being unjustly crushed by a strong ruthless one.
Author: David O. McKay, Source: Conference Report, April 1942Saved by cboyack in defense war foreignpolicy gospel peace 2 years ago[save this] [permalink]We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent or omniscient -- that we are only 6 percent of the world's population -- that we cannot impose our will upon the other 94 percent of mankind and therefore there cannot be an American solution for every world problem.
Author: John F. Kennedy, Source: http://www.learner.org/channel/workshops/primarysources/coldwa...Saved by cboyack in government war patriotism foreignpolicy american usa 2 years ago[save this] [permalink]The greatest and most powerful fortification in America is the 'Monroe Doctrine.'... It was the inspiration of the Almighty which rested upon John Quincy Adams, Thomas Jefferson and other statesmen, and which finally found authoritative expression in the message of James Monroe to Congress in the year 1823.
Author: Joseph Fielding Smith, Source: The Progress Of Man, pp. 466-67Saved by cboyack in america war foreignpolicy isolation monroe 2 years ago[save this] [permalink]The policies promoted by the C.F.R. in the fields of defense and international relations become, with a regularity which defies the laws of chance, the official policies of the United States Government. As Liberal columnist Joseph Kraft, himself a member of the C.F.R., noted of the Council in the Harper's article:
"It has been the seat of some basic government decisions, has set the context for many more, and has repeatedly served as a recruiting ground for ranking officials."
Author: Gary Allen, Source: None Dare Call It Conspiracy, p. 96Saved by cboyack in defense conspiracy government foreignpolicy cfr 2 years ago[save this] [permalink]World War I was a financial bonanza for the international bankers. But it was a catastrophe of such magnitude for the United States that few even today grasp its importance. The war reversed our traditional foreign policy of non-involvement and we have been enmeshed almost constantly ever since in perpetual wars for perpetual peace. Winston Churchill once observed that all nations would have been better off had the U.S. minded its own business. Had we done so, he said:
"...peace would have been made with Germany; and there would have been no collapse in Russia leading to Communism; no breakdown of government in Italy followed by Fascism; and Nazism never would have gained ascendancy in Germany." (Social Justice Magazine, July 3, 1939, p.4.)
Author: Gary Allen, Source: None Dare Call It Conspiracy, p. 75Saved by cboyack in government war foreignpolicy 2 years ago[save this] [permalink]Can't find a good quote on foreignpolicy? Try searching ScriptureTag!