Always Quote by Harry Belafonte

What the [James] Monroe Doctrine stated, in effect, is that the US should dominate the hemisphere.

— Noam Chomsky

We need a new Monroe Doctrine for the Western Hemisphere, one that prioritizes the security and prosperity for the United States and our neighbors.

— Michael Waltz

“just as the Monroe Doctrine gave the same rights to the USA in South America.”

— Ken Follett

“Both nations have an idea of Manifest Destiny and a concept of the Monroe Doctrine in their ideological arsenal, and both are continental powers…

— Patrick Mendis

The European powers had been anxious to see the United States become embroiled in a civil war and eventually break into two smaller and…

— G. Edward Griffin

In the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly, in flagrant cases…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“I view [your undertaking],” Jefferson would write to Astor, “as the germ of a great, free and independent empire on that side of our…

— Peter Stark

We shall divert through our own Country a branch of commerce which the European States have thought worthy of the most important struggles and…

— Thomas Jefferson

To call the American role in the world imperial was, for many who did so, a way of asserting that the United States was…

— Michael Mandelbaum

The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century.

— Robert M. Gates

Ultimately, I think the United States is a pretty awesome country but it very plausibly would have been even awesomer had English and American…

— Matthew Yglesias

America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution.

— Francis Parkman