1. “Americans must begin to look outward
“Americans must begin to look outward. The growing production of the country demands it.”
Navy officer, Alfred T. Mahan, The Interest of America in Sea Power, 1897

2. "I, LILIUOKALANI of Hawaii …do hereby protest against the ratification (approval) of a certain treaty, which, so I am informed, has been signed at Washington … [giving the Hawaiian Islands] to the dominion of the United States. I declare such a treaty to be an act of wrong toward the native and part-native people of Hawaii, an invasion of the rights of the ruling chiefs, in violation of international rights … and, finally, an act of gross injustice to me.”
"… I yielded (gave up) my authority to the forces of the United States in order to avoid bloodshed, and because I recognized the futility (uselessness, pointless) of a conflict with so formidable (powerful, great) a power.”
Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen by Liliuokalani, Queen of Hawaii ( ). Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1898.

3. “I left these shores, a red-hot (a passionate) imperialist
“I left these shores, a red-hot (a passionate) imperialist. I wanted the American eagle to go screaming into the Pacific…Why not spread its wings over the Philippines, I asked myself? And I thought it would be a real good thing to do.
I said to myself, here are a people who have suffered for three centuries. We can make them as free as ourselves, give them a government and country of their own...
But I have thought some more, since then, and I have read carefully the treaty of Paris, and I have seen that we do not intend to free, but to subjugate (conquer, crush) the people of the Philippines. We have gone there to conquer, not to redeem (free the people and country).
It should, it seems to me, be our pleasure and duty to make those people free, and let them deal with their own domestic questions in their own way. And so I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons (claws ‘fingers’) on any other land.”
Famous American writer, Mark Twain, New York interview, 1900

4. “…The taking of the Philippines does not violate the principles of the Declaration of Independence, but will spread them among a people who have never known liberty.”
Republican Senator from Massachusetts, Henry Cabot Lodge, Senate speech, 1900

5. “…So far our action in the Philippines has been abundantly (greatly) justified (necessary, right), not mainly and indeed not primarily because of the added dignity (pride) it has given us as a nation …but even more because of the immense benefit that has come to the people of the Philippine Islands. In these islands we are steadily (gradually, bit by bit) introducing both liberty and order, to a greater degree than their people have ever before known. We have secured justice. We have provided an efficient police force, and have put down ladronism [thievery].”
President Theodore Roosevelt, On America's Territorial Possessions and Interests State of the Union Address

6. “…The question with which we now have to deal is whether Congress may conquer and may govern, without their consent and against their will, a foreign nation…
Under the Declaration of Independence you cannot govern a foreign territory… you cannot conquer them and govern them against their will, because you think is for their own good”
US Senator George F. Hoar from Massachusetts, speech in Congress, 1899

7. “We hold that the policy known as imperialism is hostile to liberty and tends toward militarism, and evil from which it has been our glory to be free…We maintain that governments derive their just powers form the consent of the governed.
…We hold, with Abraham Lincoln, that “no man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.”
Platform of the American Anti-Imperialist League, 1900

8. “It seems to me that God, with infinite wisdom and skill is training the [American race] for an hour sure to come in the world’s future…this powerful race will spread itself over the earth. And can anyone doubt that the result of this competition of races will be the ‘survival of the fittest’”
American Reverend Josiah Strong, Our Country