Evan Sayet Quotes
We are not imperialists. We don't even try to take over Canada. It would be easy, although it might take a rear guard action to guard Anne Murray.
Sayet, Evan. Live stand-up performance.
Jefferson was not the only one who thought that taking Canada and driving the English out would be relatively easy as Canada was vast and the English troops were spread very thin. However, although the English had great strategic weakness, the American officers who led the Canadian effort were not very competent and made a series of terrible tactical decisions and the Canadian operation failed in a terrible fiasco.
Gallatin, then an Ambassador, was opposed to administration designs on Florida. In a response Monroe told him that Florida was going to be taken anyway, but in reality it had already been done so.
America had declared war on Mexico and President Polk had designs on California and other territory.
Soon thereafter the Spanish American War began and when McKinley favored taking the Philippines from Spain, the New York Sun stated, "We are all jingoes now, and the head jingo is the Hon. William McKinley.
Evan Douglas Sayet is a comedian and conservative speaker.
