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America and Europe8 quotes
The American continents... Are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers. — James Monroe · 1823We 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 · 1823What 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 · 1782We 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 · 1928It'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 · 1994It is a land of desire for all those who are weary of the historical arsenal of old Europe. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel · 1830All 8 quotes →American politics2 quotes
The American continents... Are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers. — James Monroe · 1823We 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 · 1823Monroe doctrine2 quotes
The American continents... Are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers. — James Monroe · 1823We 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 · 1823Western hemisphere2 quotes
The American continents... Are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers. — James Monroe · 1823We 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 · 1823America1 quote
It is a land of desire for all those who are weary of the historical arsenal of old Europe. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel · 1830Americans1 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