Anti-Climacus

And one last thing to chew on, if I may. we are the most powerful country in the history of the world. It is not in spite of this fact that we are free and prosperous, whatever history may tell us (Satayana and, for that matter, Gibbon, be damned), we are powerful precisely because we are free, and we want nothing more than to spread that freedom everywhere in the world. We may not always do it perfectly, but there has never been a more noble goal in the history of humanity, and never have so many pushed so far towards that goal.