"Exclusivism" Quotes from Famous Books
... justified in having urged them to admit a resident official agent to protect those interests. But if a nation deems it politic to isolate itself from all others, has any state the right to compel that nation to abandon its exclusivism, and to receive offensive strangers as residents? No publicist will answer this in the affirmative, nor do statesmen advocate such a claim; yet practically Christian nations have uniformly acted on the assumption that they might rightfully force themselves upon an unwilling ... — Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various |