To: steve dietrich who wrote (152725 ) 11/27/2004 9:39:31 AM From: Michael Watkins Read Replies (1) | Respond to > Don't remember ever reading any of the other presidents saying God told them to go invade. <“I walked the floor of the White House night after night until midnight, and I am not ashamed to tell you gentlemen, that I went down on my knees and prayed God Almighty for light and guidance more than one night. And one night late it came to me this way—I don't know how it was, but it came” -- to keep them for ourselves and make them like it. “God has not been preparing the English-speaking and Teutonic peoples for a thousand years for nothing but vain and idle self-contemplation and self-admiration....He has made us adept in government that we may administer government among savage and senile peoples.” -- Senator Albert J. Beveridge of McKinley and Roosevelt's time."We have pacified some thousands of the islanders & buried them; destroyed their fields; burned their villages, & turned their widows & orphans out-of-doors; furnished heartbreak by exile to some dozens of disagreeable patriots; subjugated the remaining ten millions by Benevolent Assimilation, which is the pious new name of the musket; we have acquired property in the three hundred concubines & other slaves of our business partner Sultan of Sulu, & hoisted our protecting flag over that swag. -— Mark Twain
