those who do not change do not change things
"Mr. President, God has not been preparing the English-speaking and Teutonic peoples for a thousand years for nothing but vain and idle self-contemplation and self-admiration. No! He has made us the master-organizers of the world to establish system where chaos reigns. He has made us adepts in government that we may administer government among savage and senile peoples. He has marked the American people as His chosen nation to finally lead in the regeneration of the world. This is the divine mission of America. The Philippines are ours forever. We will not repudiate our duty in the archipelago. We will not abandon [this] opportunity in the Orient. We will not renounce our part in the mission of our race, trustee, under God, of the civilization of the world."
--Senator Albert J. Beveridge, R-IN, addressing President William McKinley in 1900
"President McKinley was sorely perplexed by the Philippine [War]. Night after night he walked the floor of the White House and--as he himself said--went down on his knees and 'prayed Almighty God for light and guidance.' One night the solution came to him, that 'there was nothing left for us to do but to take them [the Philippine Islands] all, and to educate the Filipinos, and uplift and civilize and Christianize them, and by God's grace do the very best we could by them, as our fellow men for whom Christ also died.' After this 'inspiration,' the President went to bed and slept soundly."
--from The American Past by Roger Butterfield
--Senator Albert J. Beveridge, R-IN, addressing President William McKinley in 1900
"President McKinley was sorely perplexed by the Philippine [War]. Night after night he walked the floor of the White House and--as he himself said--went down on his knees and 'prayed Almighty God for light and guidance.' One night the solution came to him, that 'there was nothing left for us to do but to take them [the Philippine Islands] all, and to educate the Filipinos, and uplift and civilize and Christianize them, and by God's grace do the very best we could by them, as our fellow men for whom Christ also died.' After this 'inspiration,' the President went to bed and slept soundly."
--from The American Past by Roger Butterfield