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Bill Clinton4 quotes
America stands alone as the world's indispensable nation. — Bill Clinton · 1997What a century it has been. America became the world's mightiest industrial power, saved the world from tyranny in two World Wars and a long Cold War, and time and again reached out across the globe to millions who, like us, longed for the blessings of liberty. — Bill Clinton · 1997Today, a generation raised in the shadows of the cold war assumes new responsibilities in a world warmed by the sunshine of freedom but threatened still by ancient hatreds and new plagues. — Bill Clinton · 1993At the dawn of the 21st century, a free people must now choose to shape the forces of the information age and the global society, to unleash the limitless potential of all our people, and yes, to form a more perfect Union. — Bill Clinton · 1997Woodrow Wilson3 quotes
The world must be made safe for democracy. — Woodrow Wilson · 1917America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand. — Woodrow Wilson · 1916We realize that the greatest things that remain to be done must be done with the whole world for stage and in cooperation with the wide and universal forces of mankind, and we are making our spirits ready for those things. — Woodrow Wilson · 1917Alfred Thayer Mahan1 quote
Whether they will or no, Americans must now begin to look outward. — Alfred Thayer Mahan · 1890Calvin Coolidge1 quote
America seeks no earthly empire built on blood and force. No ambition, no temptation, lures her to thought of foreign dominions. — Calvin Coolidge · 1925Franklin D. Roosevelt1 quote
We have learned that we cannot live alone, at peace; that our own well-being is dependent on the well-being of other Nations, far away... We have learned to be citizens of the world, members of the human community. — Franklin D. Roosevelt · 1945George W. Bush1 quote
Our nation is chosen by God and commissioned by history to be a model to the world of justice. — George W. Bush · 2000Herbert Hoover1 quote
Superficial observers seem to find no destiny for our abounding increase in population, in wealth and power except that of imperialism. They fail to see that the American people are engrossed in the building for themselves of a new economic system, a new social system, a new political system all of which are characterized by aspirations of freedom of opportunity and thereby are the negation of imperialism. — Herbert Hoover · 1929John F. Kennedy1 quote
We will not prematurely or unnecessarily risk the costs of worldwide nuclear war in which even the fruits of victory would be ashes in our mouth--but neither will we shrink from that risk at any time it must be faced...I call upon Chairman Khrushchev to halt and eliminate this clandestine, reckless, and provocative threat to world peace and to stable relations between our two nations...He has an opportunity now to move the world back from the abyss of destruction. — John F. Kennedy · 1962John Osborne1 quote
I must say it's pretty dreary living in the American Age-unless you're an American, of course. — John Osborne · 1956Niall Ferguson1 quote
It is an empire…that dare not speak its name. It is an empire in denial. — Niall Ferguson · 2003Richard Nixon1 quote
If, when the chips are down, the world's most powerful nation...acts like a pitiful, helpless giant, the forces of totalitarianism and anarchy will threaten free nations and free institutions throughout the world. — Richard Nixon · 1970Theodore Roosevelt1 quote
Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shirk neither. We have become a great nation, forced by the fact of its greatness into relations with the other nations of the earth, and we must behave as be seems a people with such responsibilities. — Theodore Roosevelt · 1905Thomas Paine1 quote
Not a place upon earth might be so happy as America. Her situation is remote from all the wrangling world, and she has nothing to do but to trade with them. — Thomas Paine · 1776Ulysses S. Grant1 quote
It is my firm conviction that the civilized world is tending toward republicanism, or government by the people through their chosen representatives, and that our own great Republic is destined to be the guiding star to all others. — Ulysses S. Grant · 1873