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Quotes from A Distinctly American Internationalism — George W. Bush

born 1946 United States

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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.

A Distinctly American Internationalism (1999)

The most powerful force in the world is not a weapon or a nation but a truth: that we are spiritual beings, and that freedom is "the soul's right to breathe."

A Distinctly American Internationalism (1999)

The case for trade is not just monetary, but moral. Economic freedom creates habits of liberty. And habits of liberty create expectations of democracy.

A Distinctly American Internationalism (1999)

Precisely because we have no territorial objectives, our gains are not measured in the losses of others. They are counted in the conflicts we avert, the prosperity we share and the peace we extend.

A Distinctly American Internationalism (1999)

American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace.

A Distinctly American Internationalism (1999)

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