Maine Quotes
The only alternative is war or national dishonor; and between these two, what American can hesitate.
Canadian lumberjacks began operations on the Aroostook River area that was in dispute between Maine and Canada:
There was a political maxim—"As Maine goes, so goes the nation"—which originated from the fact that Maine presidential elections used to be held several weeks in advance of national elections. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Republicans won most of the presidential elections; thus the rest of the nation usually "agreed" with the Maine voters. However, in 1932 Franklin Delano Roosevelt swamped Alf Landon by winning every state except Maine and Vermont. FDR's campaign manager then quipped:
At a requiem for those who died on the battleship Maine, Gibbons criticized war mongering yellow journals. This was a very courageous statement to have made. The Hearst newspaper had fired up the American appetite for revenge and almost all the politicians were advocating war. At the time anti-Catholicism in America was extensive and Catholics were always being accused of not being patriotic Americans and more loyal to the Vatican than to the United States.
