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"Whether Such a Country is worthy of the Patriotism of honest Men? I answer, Such a Country is as worthy as any other Country. Our People are like other People. Our Obligations to our Country never cease but with our Lives. We ought to do all We can. [...] This must be our ultimate resort. The miserable struggle for place and power, must be laid aside, and heart and hand united for defense. [...] An Aristocracy of Wealth, without any Check but a Democracy of Licentiousness is our Curse. I wish that Aristocracy was in a hole, guarded by Hercules with his Club on one Side and an honest People with their Millions of hands on the other. The eternal Intrigues of our monied and Landed and Slaved Aristocracy, are and will be our ruin. I will be neither Aristocrat nor Democrat; without a Mediator between the two. With such a Mediator I will be both."
📜 John Adams, Letter to Benjamin Rush, 1808
📍 Las Vegas, Nevada
📜 John Adams, Letter to Benjamin Rush, 1808
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"A race whose men will not work and will not fight ought to die out, and unless it will either work or fight it generally does die out."
📜Theodore Roosevelt, Letter to Hamlin Garland, 1903
📍 Denver, Colorado
📜Theodore Roosevelt, Letter to Hamlin Garland, 1903
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"At one time, in imagination, he located the 'ultimate capitol' of the United States in the 'valley of Mexico' where 'the glories of the Aztec capital would be renewed.' And even when he 'corrected this view,' possibly from a growing distrust of the advantages to be gained from absorption of the restless and unruly Latin-American republics, [William Henry Seward] still placed the 'future and ultimate central seat of power' in such a quarter — 'at the head of navigation on the Mississippi River and on the great Mediterranean Lakes' — as to indicate his belief that the Stars and Stripes would one day wave over the entire continent from the frozen Arctic to the tropical Caribbean."
📜 Henry Addington Bruce, The Romance of American Expansion, 1909
🎨 The Battle of New Orleans (Detail), Eugene Louis Lami, 1839
📜 Henry Addington Bruce, The Romance of American Expansion, 1909
🎨 The Battle of New Orleans (Detail), Eugene Louis Lami, 1839
"The United States is better situated from a military standpoint than any other nation in the world. Even in our present condition of unpreparedness, no foreign power is in a position to invade us today. If we concentrate on our own and build the strength that this nation should maintain, no foreign army will ever attempt to land on American shores."
📜 Charles Lindbergh, America First Committee Speech, New York 1941
📍 Colorado
📜 Charles Lindbergh, America First Committee Speech, New York 1941
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