Quote#World
We Americans have no commission from God to police the world
Quote byBenjamin Harrison · 1833–1901
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Statement of 1888, as quoted in Treasury of Presidential Quotations (1964) by Caroline T. Hamsberger.
English (original)
We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
— Benjamin Harrison
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