The policy of this country is a canal under American control. The United States cannot consent to the surrender of this control to... any European power.... The capital invested by corporations or citizens of other countries in such an enterprise must in a great degree look for protection to one or more of the great powers of the world. No European power can intervene for such protection without adopting measures on this continent which the United States would deem wholly inadmissible. If the protection of the United States is relied upon, The United States must exercise such control as will enable this country to protect its national interests.... An interoceanic canal across the American Isthmus ... would be the great ocean thoroughfare between our Atlantic and our Pacific shores, and virtually a part of the coastline of the United States. Our merely commercial interest in it is greater than that of all other countries, while its relations to our power and prosperity as a nation, to our means of defense, our unity, peace, and safety, are matters of paramount concern to the people of the United States.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My impression about the Panama Canal is that the great revolution it is going to introduce in the trade of the world is in the tra...de between the east and the west coast of the United States.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A rat crept softly through the vegetation Dragging its slimy belly on the bank... While I was fishing in the dull canal On a winter evening round behind the gashouse Musing upon the king my brother's wreck And on the king my father's death before him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No monster vibration, no snake universe hallucinations. Many tiny jeweled violet flowers along the path of a living brook that loo...ked like Blake's illustration for a canal in grassy Eden: huge Pacific watery shore, Orlovsky dancing naked like Shiva long-haired before giant green waves, titanic cliffs that Wordsworth mentioned in his own Sublime, great yellow sun veiled with mist hanging over the planet's oceanic horizon. No harm.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pu...lp, disgraced by Goebbels and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »