“There is a homely old adage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.” IfsBigsRunningSpeakNationsHighestTrainingSticksDoctrinePatrioticEfficientNavyAdagesHomelySpeak SoftlyMonroe Doctrine Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“In the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly, in flagrant cases of such wrong doing or impotence, to the exercise of an international police power.” MayStatesForceUnitedCasesPowerUnited StatesExercisePoliceWesternInternationalDoctrineImpotenceHemisphereAdherencePolice PowerMonroe Doctrine Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States can give up the James Monroe Doctrine for the Marilyn Monroe Doctrine: Let's all go to bed wearing the perfume we like best.” IfsGivingStatesUnitedUnited StatesBedGiving UpUnionsDoctrineSovietSoviet UnionPerfumeBrezhnevMonroe Doctrine Author:Carlos Fuentes
“We should have an army so organized and so officered as to be capable in time of emergency, in cooperation with the National Militia, and under the provision of a proper national volunteer law, rapidly to expand into a force sufficient to resist all probable invasion from abroad and to furnish a respectable expeditionary force if necessary in the maintenance of our traditional American policy which bears the name of President Monroe.” IfsShouldLawNamesForcePresidentPolicyBearsCapableShould HaveArmyTraditionalSufficientOrganizedCooperationVolunteerEmergenciesInvasionProvisionRespectableMaintenanceMilitiaMonroe Doctrine Author:William Howard Taft
“The fact that Brazil and Chile now has China as their largest trading partner means the Monroe Doctrine is certainly something of the past.” MeanFactsPastChinaPartnersDoctrineTradingBrazilChileTrading PartnersMonroe Doctrine Author:Dambisa Moyo
“If you look at US internal documents, they explain very clearly what the threat of Cuba was. So, back in the early 1960s the State Department described the threat of Cuba as Castro's successful defiance of US policy, going back to the Monroe Doctrine. The Monroe Doctrine established the US claim to dominate the Western hemisphere and Castro was successfully defying that. That's not tolerable. It is like somebody saying "let's have democracy in Greece," and we just can't tolerate that so we have to destroy the threat at its roots.” IfsLooksStatesDemocracySuccessfulPolicyRootsClaimsThreatWesternDoctrineDepartmentInternalsTolerateDocumentsGreece1960sCubaDefianceCastroTolerableHemisphereDefyingMonroe Doctrine Author:Noam Chomsky
“What the [James] Monroe Doctrine stated, in effect, is that the US should dominate the hemisphere.” ShouldEffectsDoctrineHemisphereMonroe Doctrine Author:Noam Chomsky
“For the past century or so that's [ Monroe Doctrine] actually been true, but it's declining very significantly.” PastCenturyDoctrineMonroe Doctrine Author:Noam Chomsky
“The European powers had been anxious to see the United States become embroiled in a civil war and eventually break into two smaller and weaker nations. That would pave the way for their further colonization of Latin American without fear of the Americans being able to enforce the Monroe Doctrine.” WayTwoWarStatesAbleNationsUnitedBreakUnited StatesDoctrineCivil WarLatinAnxiousLatin AmericaColonizationLatin AmericanMonroe Doctrine Author:G. Edward Griffin
“So you're quite right that when... as the Cold War grew and expanded out of Europe, we ourselves had to take refuge behind the shield of the Monroe Doctrine.” HeartWarBehindsGrewColdEuropeDoctrineRefugeCold WarShieldsCold HeartMonroe Doctrine Author:E. Howard Hunt