Territorial Ambition Quotes

The day is not far distant when three Stars and Stripes at three equidistant points will mark our territory: one at the North Pole, another at the Panama Canal, and the third at the South Pole. The whole hemisphere will be ours in fact as, by virtue of our superiority of race, it already is ours morally.

We never make conquests or ask any other nation to let us establish ourselves in their country as the English, the French and the Dutch have done.

Belgium became dazzled by the dream of empire. [British colonial] Africa is but a small part of Britain; [French colonial] Africa is but a half of larger France. But the Congo is eighty-two times the size of little Belgium …

History shows that when a state is intent upon making war against another state, even though not adjacent, it begins to seek frontiers across which it could reach the frontiers of the state which it desires to attack. Usually, the aggressive state finds that frontier.

I don't trust any country that looks around a continent and says, "Hey, I'll take the frozen part."

I am not, sir, in favor of cherishing the passion of conquest. I am permitted ... to indulge the hope of seeing, ere long, the new United States, (if you will allow me the expression,) embracing not only the old.

Let America add Mexico to Texas, and pile Cuba upon Canada; let the English overswarm all India, and hang out their blazing banner from the sun; two thirds of this terraqueous globe are the Nantucketer's. For the sea is his; he owns it.

I don't want to conquer North America. I only want a share.

If it were not for the vicinity of the United States, he would perhaps be the founder of an empire in constant motion. You see him today on the Wabash, and in a short time hear of him on the shores of Lake Erie or Michigan, or on the banks of the Mississippi, and wherever he goes he makes an impression favorable to his purpose.

I think women like to conquer hearts. Men like to conquer countries.

Having read the histories of other countries, I saw that expansion was everything, and that the world's surface being limited, the great object of present humanity should be to take as much of the world as it possibly could.

The United States have no possessions in the east and do not desire to have any, as other countries do.