We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
John F. Kennedy

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.
John F. Kennedy

Personally, I like two types of men - domestic and foreign.
Mae West

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
Plato

If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "peace conference," you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.
Joseph Stalin

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.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
James Madison

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
James Madison

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
George Orwell

Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.
P. J. O'Rourke

Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.
Douglas MacArthur

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas.
George W. Bush

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.
John Steinbeck

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
Rudyard Kipling

I'm a New Wave baby, so I got very stimulated by foreign film.
Jack Nicholson

It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.
Joe Biden

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
Virginia Woolf

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.
Margaret Thatcher

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.
Ron Paul