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Quotes on Imperialism Imperialism is an institution under which one nation asserts the right to seize the land or at least to control the government or resources of another people. -John T. Flynn If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism. -Vladimir Lenin For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual. -Irving Babbitt Imperialism is a paper tiger. -Mao Tse-Tung We could not leave them to themselves - they were unfit for self-government - and they would soon have anarchy and misrule over there worse than Spain’s was ... there was nothing left for us to do but to take them all, and to educate the Filipinos, and uplift and civilize and Christianize them. -U.S. President William McKinley, 1899, on the Filipinos Can no one doubt that the result of the competition of the races will be survival of the fittest? -Josiah Strong Take up the White Man's burden— Send forth the best ye breed— Go, bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need. -Rudyard Kipling We have taken up the white man’s burden Of ebony and brown; Now will you tell us Rudyard, How may we put it down? -from The New World (1899) in response to Kipling’s poem The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist — McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnel Douglas, the designer of the F-15. -Thomas L. Friedman 1999