Quotes by Albert J. Beveridge
“American factories are making more than the American people can use; American soil is producing more than they can consume. Fate has written our policy for us; the trade of the world must and shall be ours.”— 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
“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
“We are a conquering race, and we must obey our blood and occupy new markets, and, if necessary, new lands.”— Albert J. Beveridge
“The Opposition tells us that we ought not to govern a people without their consent. I answer, The rule of liberty that all just government derives its authority from the consent of the governed, applies only to those who are capable of self-government.”— Albert J. Beveridge
“God has not been preparing the English-speaking and Teutonic peoples for a thousand years for nothing but vain and idle self-contemplation and self-admiration. No! He has made us the master organizers of the world to establish system where chaos reigns.”— Albert J. Beveridge
“It is a noble land that God has given us; a land that can feed and clothe the world; a land whose coastlines would enclose half the countries of Europe; a land set like a sentinel between the two imperial oceans of the globe.”— Albert J. Beveridge