Do not look too close at the little process with which you are concerned, but let your thoughts and your imagination run abroad throughout the whole world. And with the inspiration of the thought that you are Americans and are meant to carry liberty and justice and the principles of humanity wherever you go, go out and sell goods that will make the world more comfortable and more happy, and convert them to the principles of America.
Between Ideology and Realpolitik: Woodrow Wilson and the Russian Revolution, 1917-1921
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