Moshe Sharett Quotes

Historically, we were always complaining about others interfering in our domestic and national issues.

All members will refrain in their international relations from the threat or the use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state.

The American nation cannot reach across the planet and pick the leadership of other countries.

Such recognition is not necessary in order to enable the United States to intervene and pacify the Island.

No country has the right to impose its will or rule on another by force.

Try to think for your own why the Russians and the Chinese do not like the idea that whoever takes aggressive steps to keep order within his sovereign borders should not accept others to intervene physically.

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

I hope that the German people will never again make the mistake of believing that because the American people are peace-loving, they will sit back hoping for peace if any nation uses force or the threat of force to acquire dominion over other peoples and other governments.

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.

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

Our purpose is not to interfere with the laws and customs which are beneficial to your people.

We do not have the God-given right to intervene in any country in which we feel like intervening.

The most extravagant idea that can be born in the head of a political thinker is to believe that it suffices for people to enter, weapons in hand, among a foreign people and expect to have its laws and constitution embraced. No one loves armed missionaries; the first lesson of nature and prudence is to repulse them as enemies.

We utter afresh the sharpest protest against all efforts and proclamations in favor of annexing foreign territory and of doing violence to the territory of others …. The people desire no annexations. The people desire peace.

We will not allow other countries to use our soil as a battleground.

We do not want a single foot of foreign territory; but of our territory we shall not surrender a single inch to anyone.

Please don't intervene. Please leave us alone. It is my job and we can cope with this matter. We are trying to explain this to foreigners. But if they do not understand or ignore our explanation, I don't care because we are not begging them for food.

We have decided to bring to an end the most unequal, most unjust, most barbarous war of our age, and have chosen the road to exile in order that our people will not be exterminated and in order to consecrate ourselves wholly and in peace to the preservation of our empire's independence ... we now demand that the League of Nations should continue its efforts to secure respect for the covenant, and that it should decide not to recognize territorial extensions, or the exercise of an assumed sovereignty, resulting from the illegal recourse to armed force and to numerous other violations of international agreements.

However desirable the maintenance of ex-territorial rights hitherto enjoyed might be, it was obvious that the public opinion of this country would not countenance a war for the purpose of maintaining them.

Any nation's right to form a government and an economic system of its own choosing is inalienable.... Any nation's attempt to dictate to other nations their form of government is indefensible.

The government of Mexico and the Mexican people do not have to accept provisions that one government unilaterally wants to impose on the other.

I do not accept the right of big powers to change governments as and when it affects their interests.

Every country has the right to own its own sovereignty.

Tehran believes it's none of our business or anybody else's to decide the future of personalities in other countries.

An offensive war, I believe to be wrong and would therefore have nothing to do with it, having no right to meddle with another man's property, his ox or his ass, his man servant or his maid servant or anything this is his.