George Washington Quotes
I have always given it as my decided opinion that no nation had a right to intermeddle in the internal concerns of another; that every one had a right to form and adopt whatever government they liked best to live under themselves.
Washington, George. "From George Washington to James Monroe, 25 August 1796." The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 20, 1 April–21 September 1796, edited by David R. Hoth and William M. Ferraro, University of Virginia Press, 2019, pp. 605-609.
From the very beginning of the country, some states reserved the job of policing the state to the state as opposed to the Federal Government and would not countenance federal police, and there really were not any until the FBI was created in the 20th century. Still unlike any other country, the Federal government has minimal policing power. The FBI is very small—so small that it is smaller then one of the three shifts of the New York City police department.
The highest court in New York. This was the generally accepted view of international law until WWII when atrocities and crimes against humanity were coped with. Also, at the time of this writing America was a small emerging state and not one of the great powers. Hence the prohibition of even commenting on the internal affairs of another nation was important to us. Now that America is a superpower, and society is more concerned with human rights, the point of view has changed.
George Washington was the first President of the United States (1789-97), the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He presided over the convention that drafted the current United States Constitution and during his lifetime was called the "father of his country".
