"Because
the Cause is the heart's beat"
"America
has abstained from interference in the concerns of others,
even when the conflict has been for principles to which she clings. . . .
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."
--
John Quincy Adams, 1821