--- title: "2 American imperialism Quotes By James Aldridge" description: "2 American imperialism quotes by James Aldridge. Plus more from James Aldridge and more American imperialism sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/38b/james-aldridge-23659_american-imperialism_america-capital-has-taken-up-this-easy-b_932198.jpg" --- > [“America capital has taken up this easy banner of world disorder and we are simply the poor willing fools that follow on behind. We are expected and asked to beat the Russians to death, and yet we are the ultimate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-aldridge/america-capital-has-taken-up-this-easy-banner-of-world-disorder-and/) [James Aldridge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-aldridge/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/38b/james-aldridge-23659_american-imperialism_america-capital-has-taken-up-this-easy-b_932198.jpg) > [“The Honourable Lady confuses the American people with American policy… It is the very generosity of the American people which makes it possible for their policy-makers to confuse the trick them into believing that American is the God-father of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-aldridge/the-honourable-lady-confuses-the-american-people-with-american-policy/) [James Aldridge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-aldridge/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/403/james-aldridge-23659_american-imperialism_the-honourable-lady-confuses-the-america_2095478.jpg) ## Other authors on American imperialism - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-noam-chomsky-71799.jpg) Noam Chomsky 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/american-imperialism/noam-chomsky/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-christopher-hitchens-23938.jpg) Christopher Hitchens 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/american-imperialism/christopher-hitchens/) ## More by James Aldridge > [“If we do not stop these mar-makers not,...it will soon be too late. We are the only nation that can halt this crusade. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-aldridge/if-we-do-not-stop-these-mar-makers-not-it-will-soon-be-too-late-we/) [James Aldridge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-aldridge/) > [“The Americans love to play diplomacy by making scares. It's a crude method.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-aldridge/the-americans-love-to-play-diplomacy-by-making-scares-it-s-a-crude/) [James Aldridge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-aldridge/) > [“Religious fanaticism is simply good politics in the middle-eastern countries.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-aldridge/religious-fanaticism-is-simply-good-politics-in-the-middle-eastern/) [James Aldridge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-aldridge/) > [“Firstly, the Azerbaijanian struggle for a measure of autonomy and self-government is genuine and is locally inspired. The facts of history and existing conditions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-aldridge/firstly-the-azerbaijanian-struggle-for-a-measure-of-autonomy-and-self/) [James Aldridge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-aldridge/) > [“America capital has taken up this easy banner of world disorder and we are simply the poor willing fools that follow on behind. We…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-aldridge/america-capital-has-taken-up-this-easy-banner-of-world-disorder-and/) [James Aldridge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-aldridge/) > [“How do you English Socialists believe in Empire like that?' Steele said to Holmes. 'Empire is inimical to Democracy and it has no right…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-aldridge/how-do-you-english-socialists-believe-in-empire-like-that-steele-said/) [James Aldridge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-aldridge/) > [“A man may have the right to criticize the Government, but I'm hanged if he has a right to brazenly use his free speech…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-aldridge/a-man-may-have-the-right-to-criticize-the-government-but-i-m-hanged/) [James Aldridge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-aldridge/) > [“I'd like you to see that we are interfering too drastically. WE can't just assume so completely that Azerbaijan is in the hands of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-aldridge/i-d-like-you-to-see-that-we-are-interfering-too-drastically-we-can-t/) [James Aldridge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-aldridge/) > [“This solid permanence in Foreign Office affairs had always antagonized MacGregor: there was something threatening and deadly and over-sure in it. The building itself…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-aldridge/this-solid-permanence-in-foreign-office-affairs-had-always/) [James Aldridge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-aldridge/) > [“Nothing that was said in here would decide MacGregor's fate. That decision was being made elsewhere. This was not the highest Court in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-aldridge/nothing-that-was-said-in-here-would-decide-macgregor-s-fate-that/) [James Aldridge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-aldridge/) > [ “You are claiming that the Soviet authorities began and influenced the existence of the Democratic Party \[in Iran\]. That is the basis of all… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-aldridge/you-are-claiming-that-the-soviet-authorities-began-and-influenced-the/) [James Aldridge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-aldridge/) > [“MacGregor shrugged. 'More than the population are opium addicts,' he said. 'Don't dismiss it like that,' she told him impatiently. 'I'm not dismissing it,'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-aldridge/macgregor-shrugged-more-than-the-population-are-opium-addicts-he-said/) [James Aldridge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-aldridge/) > [“It's easy these days to buy a nation, but it's quite difficult to take it by force.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-aldridge/it-s-easy-these-days-to-buy-a-nation-but-it-s-quite-difficult-to-take/) [James Aldridge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-aldridge/) > [“The Honourable Lady confuses the American people with American policy… It is the very generosity of the American people which makes it possible for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-aldridge/the-honourable-lady-confuses-the-american-people-with-american-policy/) [James Aldridge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-aldridge/) > [“I have betrayed no confidence and no trust. I simply wrote a letter in which I stated the truth--for the Government or anybody else.'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-aldridge/i-have-betrayed-no-confidence-and-no-trust-i-simply-wrote-a-letter-in/) [James Aldridge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-aldridge/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/american-imperialism/james-aldridge/#itemlist", "name": "2 American imperialism Quotes By James Aldridge", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“America capital has taken up this easy banner of world disorder and we are simply the poor willing fools that follow on behind. We are expected and asked to beat the Russians to death, and yet we are the ultimate victims ourselves: we socialists, we democrats, we progressives, we liberals, we republicans. Though it isn't the private crusade of America, American capital is conducting it, financing it, directing it, and using it, because America to-day is in the hands of violent expansionists, imperialists, capitalists, fascists—call them what you like. They believe the world is theirs, with their atom bomb and their sickening dollars. They are men who have seized America from the feeble hands of a frightened man, and through him they are directing a brazen attack upon the common liberties of all men. With our Imperialists they ask the world to stop Russia! Stop Russia for what?...So that American capital can extend its economic and political dominion over this entire universe, even to the poles! Like our own--these American imperialists are terrified of any movement for social and economic freedom because their Imperialism cannot exist in a better world and they know it. It cannot exist while Russia remains an example in social ownership and social courage. If we ever looked to America for leadership in human affairs, we may have looked to the late President Roosevelt, but these men are not Roosevelt men. Roosevelt's men have gone. Instead we have the new men of America. The men of capital representation, of military ambition, of political threat, of economic force. These are the men we are expected to follow in this great campaign against Russia. But it isn't only Russia that they attack. Their war is upon a world of resisting people who seek self-determination and some ultimate, simple, liberty. Their war is upon every progressive citizen, particularly those desperate partisans who fight for their liberty in America itself. Already the American schemers have the world by the throat. This very nation they have buttered with their silver dollars, saving us from the sins of all-out Socialism. Our entire economy to-day is primed and based on the American loan. 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That is nonsense, and the American people should know it. If they don't get to know it, then the continuation of their present policy will make them the most despised people on earth. I know the Americans are generous. I know American policy is 'generous'. But there you have two different things. What the policy-makers expect in return for their dollar bounty is political co-operation against Russia and any other nation they like to call Red! I would remind the Honourable Lady that it is their anti-Red benevolence that is universal. In China, American capital is still spending more to create the military dictatorship of Chiang Kai-Shek than it did to assist China against Japan. With so many other nations in Europe and Asia broken by the war, American assistance with money and machinery almost means life itself. For national existence however, American policy has a price. It offers unconditional money, machinery, and arms to any nation that will denounce Russian and Communism and pronounce American as the God of all free nations. Even in defeated Italy, Germany, and Japan, American policy supports any sect that is anti-Red and anti-Russian. There is no end to this white American morality, it has its wide wide arms across the globe, its long fingers in every nation, and its loud voice in every ear,... Why talk about Russia!... If we must talk here about interference by one nation in another's affairs, let us talk of this American interference in every nation's affairs. Is there a nation on the face of the earth to-day except Russian and her so-called satellites which can hold up its head and say it is independent of the American dollar? We are all on our knees, and we won't admit it. Our American masters do not need arms and occupation; capital is enough. Capital is enough to strangle the earth if only it has the support of its victims. We are asked to support it—to bring others to their knees: France, Jugo-slavia, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, all of Eastern Europe, Greece, Turkey and Iran. The world over, we are asked to replace so-called Communism with the dollar. That dollar means governorship by those who will sell themselves and their nation for a smell of wealth and a grip of power. Such men are international. American has no monopoly on evil and stupid men. American simply has the wealth for bigger evil. The rest of us follow her according to our own evil and our own stupidity. 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