The Founding Fathers on Foreign Policy

- "Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none." - Thomas Jefferson

- "Our republic goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy.  She is the well-wisher of the freedom and Independence of all, but the champion and vindicator only of her own" - John Quincy Adams

- " The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connections as possible." - George Washington