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  • Expansionist Christians of both major parties agreed that national tutelage was a duty; for example, a college professor named Woodrow Wilson in 1901 celebrated the annexation of the Philippines and Puerto Rico on the ground that “they are children and we are men in these deep matters of government and justice.”

    The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010

  • Expansionist Christians of both major parties agreed that national tutelage was a duty; for example, a college professor named Woodrow Wilson in 1901 celebrated the annexation of the Philippines and Puerto Rico on the ground that “they are children and we are men in these deep matters of government and justice.”

    The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010

  • Expansionist Christians of both major parties agreed that national tutelage was a duty; for example, a college professor named Woodrow Wilson in 1901 celebrated the annexation of the Philippines and Puerto Rico on the ground that “they are children and we are men in these deep matters of government and justice.”

    The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010

  • Expansionist post-9/11 U.S. foreign policy represents not a break with the past but, rather, continuity with it — which is precisely the problem, the author argues.

    Cover to Cover 2006

  • Expansionist post-9/11 U.S. foreign policy represents not a break with the past but, rather, continuity with it — which is precisely the problem, the author argues.

    Cover to Cover 2006

  • Expansionist post-9/11 U.S. foreign policy represents not a break with the past but, rather, continuity with it — which is precisely the problem, the author argues.

    Cover to Cover 2006

  • Their memories are ours, right back to the first guardian to leave the gene labs wrapped around the wrist of an Expansionist trader.

    Fire Dancer Maxwell, Ann, 1944- 1982

  • I had known vaguely that the Humanity Party had started as a splinter of the Expansionist movement but I had never thought about it.

    Double Star Heinlein, Robert A. 1956

  • I found myself becoming, if not an Expansionist, then at least a Bonfortite.

    Double Star Heinlein, Robert A. 1956

  • The Bonforte, I mean-the Right Honorable John Joseph Bonforte, former Supreme Minister, leader of the loyal opposition, and head of the Expansionist coalition-the most loved (and the most hated!) man in the entire Solar System.

    Double Star Heinlein, Robert A. 1956

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