“I never take a step in foreign policy unless I am assured that I shall be able eventually to carry out my will by force.” — President Theodore Roosevelt -—————————————————————————————-

â€" President Theodore Roosevelt

“We have become a great nation, forced by the fact of its greatness into relations with the other nations of the earth . . . But justice and generosity in a nation . . . count most when shown not by the weak but by the strong.”