United States... world empire (United States of America, Congressional Record, Washington: Government Printing Office, vol. 33, part 1, 1900)
Text: none Quote: [...] We will not renounce our part in the mission of our race, trustee, under God, of the civilization of the world. And we will move forward to our work, not howling out regrets like slaves whipped to their burdens, but with gratitude for a task worthy of our strength, and thanksgiving to Almighty God that He has marked us as His chosen people, henceforth to lead in the regeneration of the world. United States of America, Congressional Record , Washington: Government Printing Office, vol. 33, part 1, 1900, p. 704. [...] The founders of the nation were not provincial. Theirs was the geography of the world. [...] and they knew that the Republic they were planting must, in obedience to the laws of our expanding race, necessarily develop into the greater Republic which the world beholds to-day, and into the still mightier Republic which the world will finally acknowledge as the arbiter, und...