..."It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any part of the foreign world . . . Taking care always to keep ourselves by suitable establishments...safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies."4 America's first grand strategy of isolation combined a refusal to engage in alliances...

...of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold 10 the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But in my opinion it is unnecessary...

...had Washington welcomed the 1778 alliance with France, he had counseled us in his Farewell Address, "Taking care always to keep ourselves by suitable...safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies."5 The year 1949 was an "extraordinary emergency." Thus we formed the North Atlantic Treaty...

...our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances, with any portion of the foreign world. . .. Taking care always to keep ourselves by suitable establishments,...safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary circumstances. The principles that Washington set forth in the farewell address—nonentanglement in...