Abstract
We will not renounce our part in the mission of our race, trustees under God, of the civilization of the world. God has not been preparing the English speaking and Teutonic peoples for a thousand years for nothing but vain [and] idle contemplation and self admiration. No! He has made us the master organizers of the world to establish system where chaos reigns. He has made us adept in government that we may administer government among savages and senile people.
—U.S. Senator Albert Beveridge, ca. 1890
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