It's not greed and ambition that makes wars--it's goodness. Wars are always fought for the best of reasons, for liberation or mani...fest destiny, always against tyranny and always in the best interests of humanity. So far this war, we've managed to butcher some 10,000,000 people in the interest of humanity. The next war, it seems we'll have to destroy all of man in order to preserve his damn dignity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The annexation to the United States of the adjacent parts of the continent both north and south, seems to be, according to the phr...ase of 1844, our "manifest destiny." I am not in favor of artificial stimulants to this tendency. But I think I see plainly that it is now for the interest of both Canada and the United States that properly and in order, and with due regard to the feelings of Great Britain, the two countries should come under one government. If it were known that we would probably pay the whole or part of the Canadian debts, or would assume to pay them, would it not stimulate the feeling in favor of annexation in Canada?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Other nations have tried to check ... the fulfillment of our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence f...or the free development of our yearly multiplying millions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The whole enterprise of this nation, which is not an upward, but a westward one, toward Oregon, California, Japan, etc., is totall...y devoid of interest to me, whether performed on foot, or by a Pacific railroad.... It is perfectly heathenish,--a filibustering toward heaven by the great western route. No; they may go their way to their manifest destiny, which I trust is not mine.... I would rather be a captive knight, and let them all pass by, than be free only to go whither they are bound. What end do they propose to themselves beyond Japan? What aims more lofty have they than the prairie dogs?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The excremental is all too intimately and inseparably bound up with the sexual: the position of the genitals--inter urinas et faec...es--remains the decisive and unchangeable factor. One might say here, varying a well-known saying of the great Napoleon: "Anatomy is destiny."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We were here before the mighty words of the Declaration of Independence were etched across the pages of history. Our forebears lab...ored without wages. They made cotton "king." And yet out of a bottomless vitality, they continued to thrive and develop. If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail.... Because the goal of America is freedom, abused and scorned tho' we may be, our destiny is tied up with America's destiny.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We fatuously hoped that we might pluck from the human tragedy itself a consciousness of a common destiny which should bring its ow...n healing, that we might extract from life's very misfortunes a power of cooperation which should be effective against them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro--speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the United States, as a half of... the people in whose hands lies the destiny of this Nation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is the blankness that follows gaiety, and Everyman must depart Out there into stranded night, for his destiny... Is to return unfruitful out of the lightness That passing time evokes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »