Thomas Jefferson Quotes
Those countries cannot be in better hands, my fear is that the Spaniards are too feeble to hold them till our population can be sufficiently advanced to gain it from them piece by piece.
Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826, 3rd President of the United States (Democratic Republican, VA), Referring to the Central and South American Territories, Quoted by Adam Zamoyski in “Holy Madness: Romantics, Patriots, and Revolutionaries, 1776-1781
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The Louisiana Purchase was part of a much larger grand vision for American expansion.
While Wilson is often thought of a humanist and a man committed to World peace and national rights of independence, he was also a committed economic imperialist. See {585518} for another example.
The term “America” was used by him and others to refer to South and Central America—not the United States.
Although the Irish members of Parliament were never sufficient to control Parliament on an “Irish question” pitting Irish against English, they were at times in sufficient numbers to hold the balance of power between English factions, thus “controlling England.”
Policy statement regarding European rival Germany’s colonial expansion in Africa which was being “carved up” by the European powers.
At the time he was a very young man and even his own people did not think it would happen. But he did win a major battle against the Romans.
Thomas Jefferson was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. He had previously served as the second vice president of the United States under John Adams between 1797 and 1801. The principal author of the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson was a proponent of democracy, republicanism, and individual rights, motivating American colonists to break from the Kingdom of Great Britain and form a new nation; he produced formative documents and decisions at both the state and national levels.
