When a man stops in his physical and intellectual growth he begins to decay.
Whitelaw Reid
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Whitelaw Reid was an American politician, diplomat and newspaper editor, as well as the author of Ohio in the War, a popular work of history.
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When a business stops growing it is in danger of decline.
When a nation stops growing it has passed the meridian of its course, and its shadows fall eastward.
The policy of isolating ourselves is a policy for the refusal of both duties and opportunities--duties to foreign nations and to civilization, which cannot be respectably evaded; opportunities for the development of our power on the…
There is a larger interest in what other lands have to show and teach; a larger confidence in our own; a higher resolve that it shall do its whole duty to mankind, moral as well as material, international as well as national, in such…
We are grown more nearly citizens of the world.
This new knowledge, these new duties and interests, must have two effects--they must extend our power, influence, and trade, and they must elevate the public service.
The shrewd Oriental no longer regards us as a second- or third-class Power.
He has just seen the only signs he recognizes of a nation that knows its rights and dare maintain them--a nation that has come to stay, with an empire of its own in the China Sea, and a Navy which, from what he has seen, he believes will…
The national prestige is enormously increased, and trade follows prestige--especially in the farther East.
Not within a century, not during our whole history, has such a field opened for our reaping.
It will make an end forever of Spain in this hemisphere.