11
Views
0
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

Those who are trying to apply the principles of U.S. democracy to our country are trying to make a mouse carry an elephant.

Pages 72-77 | Published online: 01 Jun 2016

Reference

  • John Fiske (1842-1901), a philosopher and historian, taught in the Boston area in the 1870s and 1880s. An unoriginal thinker, he was nevertheless considered the most popular history lecturer ever known in the United States.
  • Government Printing Office, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1895 (Washington, D.C.) I, p. 545-562.
  • By the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494), Pope Alexander VI formally divided the known and yet-to-be discovered maritime world between Spain and Portugal.
  • Quoted in Benjamin B. Ringer, “We the People” and Others: Duality and America’s Treatment of its Racial Minorities (New York: Tavistock Publishers, 1983), p. 976.
  • Samuel Huntington, “Human Rights and American Power,” Commentary (September 1981), pp. 37-38.
  • Jeane Kirkpatrick, “Dictatorships and Double Standards,” Commentary (November 1979), p. 45.
  • Quoted in Walter LaFeber, Inevitable Revolutions (New York: W.W. Norton, 1983), p. 107.
  • Norman Podhoretz, Why We Were in Viet Nam (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1982), pp. 41-42.
  • David Horowitz, “Nicaragua: A Speech to My Former Comrades on the Left,” Commentary (June 1986), p. 27.
  • Commentary, June 1986, p. 31.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.