No human power can now stop the march of a nation destined to exert its influence all over the world and perhaps to dominate it.

Des Colonies et de la Révolution actuelle de l’Amérique, 2 vols. (Paris, 1817), as translated in Robert E. Spiller et al. (eds.) Literary History of the United States, vol. 1 (New York: The Macmillan Co, 1948), ch. 15, p. 207