From Isolation to Leadership, Revised / A Review of American Foreign Policy

John Holladay Latane

are well worth quoting

If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel.

"Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none or a very remote relation.