George Washington Quotes

You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies don't.

I sincerely join you in abjuring all political connection with every foreign power; and tho I cordially wish well to the progress of liberty in all nations, and would forever give it the weight of our countenance, yet they are not to be touched without contamination from their other bad principles. Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.

Peace is a natural effect of trade.

A durable, long-term U.S.-China strategic relationship is even more important now than in previous decades. The relationship will continue to grow and prosper to the mutual benefit of all peoples.

With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the U.S.A. and China.

We encourage China to engage as a good global citizen and we are clear-eyed about where differences do lie.

The adult way to run a business is to run it more like a country. They have disputes, yet they've actually been able to have huge trade with each other. They're not sending bombs at each other.

Instead … of an augmentation of military force proportioned to our extension of frontier, I proposed a moderate enlargement of the capital employed in that commerce, as a more effectual, economical, and humane instrument for preserving peace and good neighborhood with them

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

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

More and more we must build our foreign policy around commerce.

As a young nation, pursuing industry in every channel, and adventuring commerce in every sea. It is highly important that we should not only have a pacific character, but that we should really deserve it. If we manifest an unwarrantable ambition, and a rage for conquest, we unite all the great powers of Europe against us.

While we need to provide leadership and stability to the world, we should do that through diplomacy.

For a long time, perhaps too long, we believed that the world around us would become more and more peaceful, and the order more stable.

[We] are focused on protecting and defending our common security and upholding a rules-based order that undergirds the peace and prosperity of the region and the world. In this work, we are grateful for our continued partnership with Singapore.

For China to continue to enjoy economic prosperity, it needs to foster trusting international relationships, not tensions ... and it is important for China to understand this.

Peace can endure only so long as humanity really insists upon it, and is willing to work for it and sacrifice for it.

Whatever has a tendency to promote the civil intercourse of nations by an exchange of benefits is a subject as worthy of philosophy as of politics.

When peace has been broken anywhere, the peace of all countries is in danger.

Foreign policy that is obviously guided by interests, but that is very much also committed to shared values, so we have a platform, democracy, freedom, respect of human rights that we would like to see respected all over the world and also, a peaceful world order.

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

The days are gone when a country can issue orders to other peoples. Today, mankind needs culture, ideas and logic.

It should be our endeavor to cultivate the peace and friendship of every nation . . . . Our interest will be to throw open the doors of commerce, and to knock off all its shackles, giving perfect freedom to all persons for the vent to whatever they may choose to bring into our ports, and asking the same in theirs.

A nation's hope of lasting peace cannot be firmly based upon any race in armaments but rather upon just relations and honest understanding with all other nations.

Our aim is a democratic peace.