“Today we are raising more than we can consume. Today we are making more than we can use... Therefore we must find new markets for our produce, new occupation for our capital, new work for our labor.”— Albert J. Beveridge
“The Philippines are ours forever... And just beyond the Philippines are China's illimitable markets. We will not retreat from either.”— Albert J. Beveridge
“We are a conquering race, and we must obey our blood and occupy new markets, and, if necessary, new lands.”— Albert J. Beveridge
“I can never consent to establish a pernicious and wicked system in a new country, which I would not tolerate in my own.”— Rufus King
“The world is nearly all parcelled out, and what there is left of it is being divided up, conquered and colonised. To think of these stars that you see overhead at night, these vast worlds which we can never reach. I would annex the planets if I could; I often think of that. It makes me sad to see them so clear and yet so far.”— Cecil Rhodes
“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.”— Cecil Rhodes
“The Alliance's doors will remain open to countries that are willing and able to shoulder the responsibilities of membership.”— George Robertson
“I know that Nature designs that this whole continent, not merely these thirty-six states, shall be, sooner or later, within the magic circle of the American union.”— William H. Seward
“The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement westward, explain American development.”— Frederick Jackson Turner