Quote:
Speech to the U.S. House of Representatives on Foreign Policy (July 4, 1821)
John Quincy Adams
Wherever the standard of freedom and Independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benedictions and her prayers be.
But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy.
She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.
She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.
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U.S. foreign policy now as contrasted with what it was in the time of John Quincy Adams has a bearing on the efficacy of humanitarian interventions.
John Quincy Adams also was a major player in the formulation of what became known as the Monroe doctrine.
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