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19 quotes

1917

★ 5.4

Speech · Political speech

America stands alone as the world's indispensable nation.

Bill Clinton

Second Inaugural Address of Bill Clinton · 1997

★ 3.9

Speech · Political speech

America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.

Woodrow Wilson

1916

★ 3.7

Speech · Political speech

We 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

Second Inaugural Address of Woodrow Wilson · 1917

★ 3.6

Speech · Political speech

America seeks no earthly empire built on blood and force. No ambition, no temptation, lures her to thought of foreign dominions.

Calvin Coolidge

Second Inaugural Address of Calvin Coolidge · 1925

★ 3.6

Speech · Political speech

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

1962

★ 3.6

It is an empire…that dare not speak its name. It is an empire in denial.

Niall Ferguson

2003

★ 3.5

Speech · Political speech

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

Second Inaugural Address of Ulysses S. Grant · 1873

★ 2.0

Speech · Political speech

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

Second Inaugural Address of Theodore Roosevelt · 1905

★ 2.0

Speech · Political speech

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

Fourth Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt · 1945

★ 2.0

Speech · Political speech

Today, 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

First Inaugural Address of Bill Clinton · 1993

★ 2.0

Speech · Political speech

What 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

Second Inaugural Address of Bill Clinton · 1997

★ 2.0

Speech · Political speech

At 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

Second Inaugural Address of Bill Clinton · 1997

★ 2.0

Speech · Political speech

Our nation is chosen by God and commissioned by history to be a model to the world of justice.

George W. Bush

2000

★ 2.0

Magazine

Whether they will or no, Americans must now begin to look outward.

Alfred Thayer Mahan

1890

★ 1.9

Radio broadcast

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

1970

★ 1.9

Play

I must say it's pretty dreary living in the American Age-unless you're an American, of course.

John Osborne

1956

★ 1.8

Political literature

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

The American Crisis · 1776

★ 1.1

Speech · Political speech

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

Inaugural Address of Herbert Hoover · 1929

★ 1.0

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