„No country can long endure if its foundations are not laid deep in the material prosperity“

— Theodore Roosevelt

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„No country can afford to have its prosperity originated by a small controlling class.“
— Woodrow Wilson
„And those who oppose all reform will do well to remember that ruin in its worst form is inevitable if our National life brings us nothing whatever but a swollen and badly distributed material prosperity. In other words, I feel that material interests are chiefly good, not in themselves, but as an indispensable foundation upon which we should build a higher superstructure, a superstructure without which the foundation becomes worthless. Therefore I believe that the destinies of this country should be shaped primarily by moral forces, and by material forces only as they are subordinated to these moral forces.“
— Theodore Roosevelt
„As long as imperialism exists it will, by definition, exert its domination over other countries. Today that domination is called neocolonialism.“
— Ernesto Che Guevara