Quotes About Land expansion

The rise of the presidency began with the Louisiana Purchase, which in 1803 doubled the land mass of the United States. History taught the framers that, just as Rome changed from republic to empire with conquest of new lands, territorial acquisition would lead to the centralization of political power.

The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire.

Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth.