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  • And in "Elbow Room" the cast sings the glories of westward expansion in the United States, which involved the murder of native peoples and the violent conquest of half of Mexico. Among the lines in the song is one that intones, "There were plenty of fights / To win land right / But the West was meant to be / It was our Manifest Destiny?" Let it suffice to say that happily belting out a tune in which one merrily praises genocide is always easier for those whose ancestors weren't on the receiving end of the deal.

    Song   Fighting   Winning  
  • It's my manifest destiny to wear a skirt in all countries.

    2001 Quoted on www.theonionavclub.com, 31 Jan.
  • Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

    William Jennings Bryan, Mary Baird Bryan (1900). “The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan”
  • As a result of manifest destiny, we gutted our resources.

  • The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.

    Failure   Fate   Destiny  
    Saturday Review Magazine, April 15, 1978.
  • It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

    FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Sep 08, 2016
  • California belongs to Joan Didion. Not the California where everyone wears aviator sunglasses, owns a Jacuzzi and buys his clothes on Rodeo Drive. But California in the sense of the West. The old West where Manifest Destiny was an almost palpable notion that was somehow tied to the land and the climate and one's own family-an unspoken belief that was passed down to children in stories and sayings.

    Children   Destiny   Land  
  • We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us.

    Peace   War   Patriotism  
  • We, the people. Manifest Destiny. Conceived in liberty. Fear itself. Ask not. Morning in America. United we stand. Yes, we can. In times of great change and tumult, presidents seek to inspire beleaguered Americans by reminding them of their national identity.

  • We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is manifest destiny.

    William McKinley's remarks to personal secretary George Cortelyou, 1898.
  • Manifest destiny was on the march, and it was unfortunate that Mexico stood in the path.

    Destiny   Mexico   Path  
    Winston Churchill (1958). “A History of the English-speaking Peoples: The Great democracies”
  • The last chapter in any successful genocide is the one in which the oppressor can remove their hands and say, 'My God, what are these people doing to themselves? They're killing each other. They're killing themselves while we watch them die.' This is how we came to own these United States. This is the legacy of manifest destiny.

  • It's not greed and ambition that makes wars--it's goodness. Wars are always fought for the best of reasons, for liberation or manifest destiny, always against tyranny and always in the best interests of humanity. So far this war, we've managed to butcher some 10,000,000 people in the interest of humanity. The next war, it seems we'll have to destroy all of man in order to preserve his damn dignity.

    War   Ambition   Destiny  
    Paddy Chayefsky (1995). “The screenplays”
  • Providence and Manifest Destiny are synonyms often invoked to support arguments based on wishful thinking.

    "Whipping Star". Book by Frank Herbert, "From The Wreave Commentary"; p. 136, 1969.
  • I'm hungry for purpose. I'm looking for still that reason that I bought a guitar and started a band, to fulfill a purpose, to manifest destiny as to who I am and why I am the way I am, and what I do. I think it's still about the music, the song and the story.

    Song   Destiny   Thinking  
    "A Minute With: Billy Ray Cyrus on Miley and his "Hillbilly Heart". Interview with Piya Sinha-Roy, www.reuters.com. April 17, 2013.
  • The task that has fallen to us as Americans is to move the conscience of the world, to keep alive the hope and dream of freedom. For if we fail or falter, there'll be no place for the world's oppressed to flee to. This is not a role we sought. We preach no manifest destiny. But like the Americans who brought a new nation into the world 200 years ago, history has asked much of us in our time. Much we've already given; much more we must be prepared to give.

    Dream   Moving   Destiny  
    United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1982). “Ronald Reagan”
  • We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us..... The old "manifest destiny" idea ought to be modified so that each nation has the manifest destiny to do the best it can - and that without cant, without the assumption of self-righteousness and with a desire to learn to the uttermost from other nations.

    Destiny   Self   Ideas  
  • What others say and do cannot stop you from fulfilling your destiny. Your destiny was handed down by Almighty God.

    Joel Osteen (2012). “It's Your Time: Finding Favour, Restoration and Abundance in Your Everyday Life”, p.67, Simon and Schuster
  • Dunbar-Ortiz strips us of our forged innocence, shocks us into new awareness, and draws a straight line from the sins of our fathers-settler-colonialism, the doctrine of discovery, the myth of manifest destiny, white supremacy, theft and systematic killing-to the contemporary condition of permanent war, invasion and occupation, mass incarceration, and the constant use and threat of state violence.

    Father   War   Destiny  
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