American Isolation Quotes

I was fortunate to live for 3 years in another country, and although we lived in an American compound, still as a young adolescent I did venture into the world of the Japanese with great interest and enjoyment. But many Americans never left that safe and familiar life among their own people.

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.

He [Calvin Coolidge] is the first president to discover that what the American people want is to be left alone.

But neither Europe nor Africa can show any such desolation as America. The proudest, stubbornest, bitterest peasant of deserted Spain, the most primitive and superstitious Arab of the remotest oases, are a little more than kin and never less than kind at their worst; whereas in the United States one is almost always conscious of an instinctive lack of sympathy and understanding with even the most charming and cultured people.

In fact that is the struggle that most Americans - As rich as this country is, most Americans are very limited in their interaction with the world, unless the world comes to us in a very shocking way.

A lot of Americans don't really leave the country.

The American people are not cowardly. But, living in prosperous isolation, they have been the spoiled children of modern history.

It's painfully obvious to see that as Americans we can sometimes be wrapped up in our own affairs.

Not a place upon earth might be so happy as America. Her situation is remote from all the wrangling world, and she has nothing to do but to trade with them.

They are possibly the dumbest people on the planet... We Americans suffer from an enforced ignorance. We don't know about anything that's happening outside our country. Our stupidity is embarrassing.