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America and the world19 quotes
The world must be made safe for democracy. — Woodrow Wilson · 1917America stands alone as the world's indispensable nation. — Bill Clinton · 1997America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand. — Woodrow Wilson · 1916America seeks no earthly empire built on blood and force. No ambition, no temptation, lures her to thought of foreign dominions. — Calvin Coolidge · 1925We 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 · 1962We 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 · 1917All 19 quotes →Internationalism5 quotes
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 · 1917We 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 · 1945Our nation is chosen by God and commissioned by history to be a model to the world of justice. — George W. Bush · 2000Much 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 · 1905Whether they will or no, Americans must now begin to look outward. — Alfred Thayer Mahan · 1890American foreign policy3 quotes
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 · 1945Our nation is chosen by God and commissioned by history to be a model to the world of justice. — George W. Bush · 2000Much 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 · 1905American imperialism2 quotes
America seeks no earthly empire built on blood and force. No ambition, no temptation, lures her to thought of foreign dominions. — Calvin Coolidge · 1925Superficial 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 · 1929International politics2 quotes
The world must be made safe for democracy. — Woodrow Wilson · 1917We 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 · 194520th century1 quote
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 · 1997America1 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 · 1776America as superpower1 quote
America stands alone as the world's indispensable nation. — Bill Clinton · 1997American empire1 quote
It is an empire…that dare not speak its name. It is an empire in denial. — Niall Ferguson · 2003American experiment1 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 · 1929American power1 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 · 1905Cold War1 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 · 1962Cuban Missile Crisis1 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 · 1962Democracy1 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 · 1873Political progress1 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 · 1873Vietnam War1 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 · 1970World War I1 quote
America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand. — Woodrow Wilson · 1916