"America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused - preferring greatness to power and justice to glory."

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It is impossible for a stranger traveling through the United States to tell from the appearance of the people or the country whether he is in Toledo, Ohio, or Portland, Oregon. Ninety million Americans cut their hair in the same way, eat each morning exactly the same breakfast, tie up the small girls curls with precisely the same kind of ribbon fashioned into bows exactly alike; and in every way all try to look and act as much like all the others as they can.

— Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe