Addition Quote by John Moody

People began to understand that with the acquisition of California the nation had obtained practically half a continent, of which the future possibilities were…

— John Moody

The United States has been a Pacific nation for over two centuries. That's not going to change.

— Barack Obama

Well, the United States is a Pacific power. And we have always had a presence in the Pacific.

— Leon Panetta

From some tiny portion of the wealth the west accumulated in a hundred years of filling the atmosphere with carbon.

— Bill McKibben

It will take a thousand years for the frontier to reach the Pacific

— Thomas Jefferson

“In a ravenous fifty-five-day spasm during the summer of 1898, the United States asserted control over five far-flung lands with a total of 11…

— Stephen Kinzer

The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire.

— Bernard DeVoto

The major fortunes in America have been made in land.

— John D. Rockefeller

In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world.

— Samuel P. Huntington

In the same manner if any nation wasted part of its wealth, or lost part of its trade, it could not retain the same…

— David Ricardo

What we have seen of recent American action in the Pacific, the bombing of Tokyo and the engagements in the Coral Sea, off Midway…

— Chiang Kai-shek

It is important to remember that the Pacific Ocean covers a quarter of the world's surface and that each Pacific country has its own…

— Jenny Shipley