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Topic·America and Europe✕clear

James Monroe3 quotes

The American continents... Are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers. — James Monroe · 1823 We owe it, therefore, to candor, and to the amicable relations existing between the United States and those powers to declare that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety. — James Monroe · 1823 In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy so to do. — James Monroe · 1823

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel1 quote

It is a land of desire for all those who are weary of the historical arsenal of old Europe. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel · 1830

Henry James1 quote

It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe. — Henry James · 1872

Herbert Hoover1 quote

We were challenged with a peace-time choice between the American System of rugged individualism and a European philosophy of diametrically opposed doctrines-doctrines of paternalism and static socialism. — Herbert Hoover · 1928

J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur1 quote

What then is the American, this new man? He is either a European, or the descendant of a European, hence that strange mixture of blood, which you will find in no other country... Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labors and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world. — J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur · 1782

Vincent Vega1 quote

It's the little differences. I mean they got the same shit over there that they got here, but it's just—it's just there it's a little different. — Vincent Vega · 1994