Robert D. Kaplan Quotes

The United States is going to keep on with its imperialist ways.

The United States is now The Empire. There isn't an empire; there's The Empire, and that empire is the United States.

America rules the world - by force.

No nation has ever ridden to superpower status except on a tide of war and that includes the United States.

One day the United States will form the greatest empire in the world.

The United States although a superpower was never an empire..

In the past, the U.S. was the centre of the world, where everything was happening. I think my stories have always sought to question this, maybe even criticise it.

The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century.

Whenever I say that America has become an empire, someone is sure to say I'm being ridiculous.

One's teachers all belonged to that generation who were imperialists, and the whole narrative throughout my adolescence was of countries leaving the empire. I find it extraordinary that this purpose which drove how we viewed the world is now considered to be something that has no effect upon us.

American audiences tend to underappreciate the British, but 240 years ago they were us: They were the most powerful nation on Earth. Their mercantile empire spanned the planet. They had the most potent and experienced army and navy the world had ever seen.

Learn to think Imperially.

We don’t like to call ourselves an empire but in the process of becoming the richest country the world has ever known we have dominated many other people.

The whole of Britain’s international trading system, foreign policy and even Britain’s various conflicting political parties were maintained for one reason; and for one reason alone – that the money power of the world may rule the British people and through them they may rule mankind.

On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they [the Colonies] raised their flag against a power to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome in the height of her glory is not to be compared,-a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.

It is said that the British Empire is very large and respectable, and that the United States are a first-rate power. We do not believe that a tide rises and falls behind every man which can float the British Empire like a chip, if he should ever harbor it in his mind.

Britain has lost an empire and not yet found a role in the world.

Whereas the British were generally quite open about the fact that they were running an empire, few Americans politicians today would use the “e” word as anything other than a term of abuse.

[The United States] dreams of world domination, resolves to control the resources of other nations, wants to shape the world according to its ideas, and seeks to impose its values and ideology on others by force.

It’s not a dictatorship in the United States. But it is dictatorial to the rest of the world. Who’s going to say no?

… to me, I confess, they are pieces on a chessboard upon which is being played out a game for domination of the world.

The United States is pursuing a series of goals (spreading democracy, asserting its hegemony, securing oil supplies) that are ultimately incompatible.

The overall or political objective is to impose upon Russia the will of the United States and British Empire.

British Empire

We seem at, the present time to have arrived at the acute stage of the colonial fever which during the last three or four years has afflicted the various powers of Europe. Germany is vying with France, England with both, in the haste to seize upon “unoccupied” countries, and to establish “protectorates” – the cant diplomatic for incomplete annexation – over uncivilized peoples.