APUSH Chapters 27-29 Quotes

"We had spent our boyhood in the afterglow of the peaceful nineteenth century... What was war like? We wanted to see with our own eyes. We flocked into the volunteer services. I respected the conscientious objectors, and occasionally felt I should take that course myself, but hell, I wanted to see the show"

Author John Dos Passos reminisces about how he felt about going off to war in 1917

"In my regiment nine-tenths of the men were better horsemen than I was, and probably two-thirds of them better shots than I was, while on the average they were certainly hardier and more enduring. Yet after I had had them a very short while they all knew, and I knew too, that nobody else could command them as I could."

COlonel Theodore Roosevelt writes in his diary, referring to the 'rough riders'

"How can our nation escape the logic it has never failed to follow, when its last disenfranchised class calls for the vote? Behold our Uncle Sam floating the banner with one hand, 'Taxation without representation is tyranny,, and with the other seizing the billions of dollars paid in taxes by women to whom he refuses 'representation'.... Is there a single man who can justify such inequality of treatment, such outrageous discrimination? Not one.

Carrie Chapman Catt

"we assert that no nation can long endure half republic and half empire, and we warn the American people that imperialism abroad will lead quickly and inevitably to despotism at home. "

Democratic national platform, 1900

"I have seen two Americas, the America before the Spanish American War and the America since"

Foreign diplomat in washington 3 years after Spanish- American war ended

"In All the wold the re is no outstanding figure to which the world will listen, as there is no man audible in all the world, in Japan as well as Germany and Rome as well as Boston --- except the President of the United States."

H.G. Wells wrote about the president

"He sounded in my hear the first trumpet call of the new time that was to be... I had never known such a man as he, and never shall again. he overcame me. Ad in the hor or two we spent that day at lunch, and in a walk down F street, He poured into my heart such visions, such ideals, such hopes, such a new attitude toward life and patriotism and the meaning of things, as I had never dreamed men had.... After that I was his man."

Journalist William Allen White wrote of his first meeting with TR

"Bribery is no ordinary felony, but treason.... 'corruption which breaks out here and there and now and then' is not an occasional offence, but a common practice, and... the effect of it is literally to change the form of our government from one that is representative of the people to an oligarchy, representative of special interests"

Lincoln Steffens in "The shame of the Cities"

"The American Jingoes... Imagine us capable of the most foul villanies and cowardly actions. Scoundrels by nature, the American Jingoes believe that all men are made like themselves. What do they know about noble and generous feelings? ... We should not in any way heed the jingoes": or the saliva with which we might honor them in spitting at their faces.

Madrid Newspaper speaking up against Americans

"We intend simply to be ourselves, not just our little female selves, but our whole big human selves."

Marie Jenny Howe during a mass feminist meeting in Ny in 1914

"We must accept partisanship, political trickery, and office-seeking as necessary evils inseparable from modern conditions, and the question arises what can be doe to palliate the situation. To our minds, the solution has been found by the entrance of women into public life. Standing in an absolutely independent political position, freed from all partisan affiliations, untrammeled by any political obligations, the intelligent, self-sacrificing women of today are... a third party whose disinterestedness none can doubt."

Mrs. Barclay Hazard

"I felt at the time that Mr. Roosevelt had a good public life that correction should be left to him, a little resentment that a profession outside his own should be stealing his thunder"

Muckraker Ida Tarbell

"When next I realized that the Philippines had dropped into our laps, I confess I did not know what to do with them. . . . I went down on my knees and prayed Almighty God for light and guidance. . . . And one night late it came to me this way. . . . That there was nothing left for us to do but to take them all, and to educate the Filipinos, and uplift and civilize and Christianize them and by God's grace do the very best we could by them, as our fellow men, for whom Christ also died. And then I went to bed and went to sleep, and slept soundly."

President William McKinley, on decision to annex the Philippines

"The Philippines are ours forever.... And just beyond the Philippines are China's illimitable markets. We will not retreat from either. We will not abandon our opportunity in the Orient. We will not renounce our part in the mission of our race: trustee, under God, of the Civilization of the world'

Republican Albert J. Beveridge

"We are prone to speak of the resources of this country as inexhaustible; this is not so. The mineral wealth of the country, the coal, iron, oil, gas, and the like, does not reproduce itself, and therefore is certain to be exhausted ultimately; and wastefulness in dealing with it today means that or descendants will feel the exhaustion in a generation or two before they otherwise would."

Roosevelt in an annual message to Congress in 1907

"To-day the United States is practically sovereign on this continent, and its fiat is law upon the subjects to which it confines with its isolated position render it master of the situation and practically invulnerable as against any or all other powers"

Secretary of State, Richard Olney

"You cannot maintain despotism in Asia and a republic in America. If you try to deprive even a savage or a barbarian of his just rights you can never do it without becoming a savage or a barbarian yourself."

Senator George F. Hoar

"Now, It is very necessary that we should not flinch from seeing what is vile and debasing. There is filth on the floor and it must be scraped up with the muck-rake; and there are times and places where this service is the most needed of all the services that can be performed. But the man who never does anything else, who never thinks or speaks or writes, save of his feats with the muck-rake, speedily becomes, not a help to society, not an incitement to good, but one of the most potent forces for evil."

THeodore Roosevelt- muckraker speech

"Let us dictate peace by the hammering guns and not chat about peace to the accompaniment of clicking typewriters. The language of the fourteen points and the subsequent statements explaining or qualifying them are thoroughly mischievous.

Theodore Roosevelt

"I have been hoping and praying for three months that the Santo Domingans would behave so that I would not have to act in any way. I want to do nothing but what a policeman has to do... As for annexing the island, I have about the same desire to annex it as a gorged boa-constrictor might have to swallow a porcupine wrong-end-to"

Theodore Roosevelt writing to correspondent in 1914

"When I say I believe in a square deal I do not mean... to give every man the best hand. If the cards do not come to any man, or if they do come, and he has not got the power to play them, that is his affair. All I mean is that there shall be no crookedness int he dealing."

Theodore Roosevelt, 1905

"A new consciousness seems to have come upon up- the consciousness of strength- and with it a new appetite, the yearning to show our strength.... Ambition, interest, land hunger, pride, and the mere joy of fighting, whatever it may be, we are animated by a new sensation. We are face to face with a strange destiny. THe taste of Empire is in the mouth of the people even as the taste of blood is in the jungle. It means an Imperial policy, the Republic, Renascent, taking her place with the armed nations."

Washington Post, in 1896

"Your telegram received. I would feel deeply mortified to have you or anybody like you vote for me. Since you have the access to many disloyal Americans and I have not, I will ask you to convey this message to them"

Wilson responding to J.A. O'Leary's allegations of him having been pro-British in approving war loans and ammunition traffic

"The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make.

Woodrow Wilson's War Message to Congress on April II, 1917

"American enterprise is not free; the man with only a little capital is finding it harder and harder to get into the field, more and more impossible to compete with the big fellow. Why? Because the laws of this country do not prevent the strong from crushing the weak."

Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom, 1913