
The United States is the only nation ever to become the most powerful in the world without seeking to.
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The United States is the only nation ever to become the most powerful in the world without seeking to.

I will not hesitate to suspend all military and economic assistance to any country which condones or protects the international drug traffic.

For this reason I particularly welcome the Community's declared intent to maintain a constructive, forthcoming dialogue with us

transforming the whole complex of their relations into a European Union by the end of the present decade

It is important that the Russian people and the American people not be enemies.

It is important that the Chinese people--and that is one-fourth of all the people in this world--not be enemies of the United States.

I am determined that we must build a world order in which differences between governments do not make it impossible for people to be friends.

Our effort to join other nations in meeting the most urgent needs of those who live in this area has reflected not only our compassion for them in their distress but also our recognition that an orderly society depends on the capacity of…

We welcome you as the head of state of a great nation, our great and friendly neighbor to the South.

I am convinced that these agreements are in the security interest of the United States.

Poland, along with other peoples in the world, wants peace, and that is our goal: to achieve a world of peace for all nations.

I bring greetings of friendship from all of the American people to all of the Polish people.

They will always exercise restraint in their mutual relations, and will be prepared to negotiate and settle differences by peaceful means.

They will proceed from the common determination that in the nuclear age there is no alternative to conducting their mutual relations on the basis of peaceful coexistence.

As great powers, we shall sometimes be competitors, but we need never be enemies.

No nation that does not threaten its neighbors has anything to fear from the United States.

All will remember this splendid banquet, the delightful music, the new friendships that we have made with our Soviet friends.

We look forward to the time when we shall be able to welcome you in our country and in some way respond in an effective manner to the way in which you have received us so generously in your country.