...commitments. Nearly two centuries ago, Secretary of State John Quincy Adams put it this way: "America goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy....She is the champion and vindicator only of her own." 19 That distinction should guide US foreign policy in the post-Cold War era. The Isolationist Canard...

...interest for the sake of other nations. In a famous speech on 4 July 1821 he stated that the United States "goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy....all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own."72 When John Quincy Adams returned to the United States in 1817, he carried with him an image...

...independence from Turkey. John Quincy Adams's response is quoted by realists to this day. America, he said, "goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy....all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own."1 Even when realism has not advocated a different course from democratic idealism, it has often...

...would be the only persuasion it must or should apply. As John Quincy Adams put it in 1821: America is "the well-wisher to the freedom and independence...She is the champion and vindicator only of her own." 53 A strategy of leadership-by-example might well appeal to internationalists who harbor doubts regarding...

...has been or shall be unfurled, there will her [America's] heart, her benedictions and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy....She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. She will recommend the general cause, by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of...

...independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benediction, and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to 2 George Dangerfield, The Auakening of American Nationalism (New York, 1965), the freedom and independence...

...omitting to perform one of their most desirable duties." Harold Nicolson, 1939 / Justice: "America goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy....She is the champion and vindicator only of her own." John Quincy Adams 795 Justice: "Justice without force is impotent; force without justice is tyranny....

...and her prayers be." But then he turned to the American countervailing principle of noninvolvement: But she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy....She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. . . . She knows well that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners...

...has been or shall be unfurled, there will her [America's] heart, her benedictions and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to...all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.12 The reverse side of this policy of American self-restraint was the decision to exclude European...

...Michael Walzer, Just and Unjust Wars (New York: Basic Books, 1977), 327. 8 By Way of Conceptual Framework not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She...She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.' But Adams, who was surely one of the three greatest American secretaries of state, and perhaps the...