Age Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our borders are being overrun.

— Kris Kobach

What a magnificent land and race is this Britain! Everything about them is of better quality than the corresponding thing in the U.S.... Yet…

— William James

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

Right now, the Anglo people are desperately trying to hold on to the United States, like they tried to hold on to Africa

— Edward James Olmos

We should be pushing our boundaries. After all, we Britons are explorers and adventurers.

— Helen Sharman

Thus we behold Kentucky, lately an howling wilderness, the habitation of savages and wild beasts, become a fruitful field; this region, so favourably distinguished…

— Daniel Boone

We are at last on the high lands of Mexico, the districts which at least three different races have chosen to settle in, neglecting…

— Edward Burnett Tylor

There are two ways that you can gain territory from another group. One is by conquest. That's essentially the way we took California from…

— Eugene McCarthy

Our great national drama was a westward expansion that conquered a native population rather than coexisting with it.

— Ross Douthat

History will tell you that borders are not inevitable, they hardly existed at the end of the 19th century.

— Rutger Bregman

Britain won its wars on the playing fields of Eton. America developed its mettle at the muddy gaps of the Cumberlands, in the swift…

— Harvey Broome

So long as the Oregon question is left open, Mexico will calculate the chances of a rupture between us and Great Britain, in the…

— John C. Calhoun