Ron Paul Quotes

America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.

How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-building; don't police the world. That's conservative, it's Republican, it's pro-American - it follows the founding fathers. And, besides, it follows the Constitution.

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 goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.

If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.

I saw no reason why other nations should tell Central Americans how to solve their problems.

You know that we are not in the regime-change game. We are against interference in domestic conflicts.

The United States' administrations... must recognize that Iran is a big power. Having said that, we consider ourselves to be a human force and a cultural power and hence a friend of other nations. We have never sought to dominate others or to violate the rights of any other country.

It kind of scares me, the notion that we're going to be injecting ourselves into other countries' affairs when they're not posing a threat to our security. I wouldn't be telling Israel what to do.

Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.

America is the friend of all the liberties of the world. She is the guardian only of her own.

Intimately concerned as we are with the system of Europe, it does not follow that we are therefore called upon to mix ourselves on every occasion, with a restless and meddling activity, in the concerns of the nations which surround us.

There is no reason why we should not have peaceful relations with the world if we cease playing the role of international Meddlesome Mattie.

The main challenge for American foreign policy in many places is not to influence relations between states but rather to influence events within states.

The foreign policy adopted by our government is to do justice to all, and to submit to wrong by none.

[Commenting on foreign policy:] The Best politics is no politics.

Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations,—entangling alliances with none.

I don’t consider myself an isolationist. I consider myself a non-interventionist.

American foreign policy must uphold the sanctity of international treaties. That is the cornerstone on which all relations between nations must rest.

Show me a man who respects the rights of all countries, but is ready to defend his own against them all, and I will show you a man who is both a nationalist and an internationalist.

We have no constitutional authority to police the world or involve ourselves in nation building, in making the world safe for our style of democracy. Our founders advised against it and the early presidents followed that advice.

We have no desire to be the world's policeman. But America does want to be the world's peacemaker.

… she [America] goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. She will commend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example. She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication

We’re not the world’s policeman. Nor the world’s judge, jury and executioner.