"Speak softly and carry a big stick [and] you will go far."
"I took the Isthmus, started the canal and then left Congress not to debate the canal, but to debate me."
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
Born April 10, 1847, this American newspaper editor and publisher who helped establish the pattern of the modern newspaper. In his time he was one of the most powerful journalists in the United States.
“This is a war to end all wars.”
An intergovernmental organisation founded on 10 January 1920 as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War.
Built his media empire after inheriting the San Francisco Examiner from his father. He challenged New York World publisher Joseph Pulitzer by buying the rival New York Journal, earning attention for his “yellow journalism.”
He assembled an improbable regiment of Ivy Leaguers, cowboys, Native Americans, African-Americans, and Western Territory land speculators, and led them into battle in Cuba.
Several parties in the United States called this an act of war on Colombia: The New York Evening Post called it a "vulgar and mercenary venture."
"I implore the people of this great and good nation, from whom my ancestors learned the Christian religion, to sustain their representatives in such acts of justice and equity as may be in accord with the principles of their fathers, and to the Almighty Ruler of the universe, to him who judgeth righteously, I commit my cause."
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