“Heretofore there has always been in the history of the world a compara...” — Josiah Strong Quote

“Heretofore there has always been in the history of the world a comparatively unoccupied land westward, into which the crowded countries of the East have poured their surplus populations.”

“If I read not amiss, this powerful race will move down upon Mexico, down upon Central and South America, out upon the islands of the sea, over upon Africa and beyond. And can any one doubt that the results of this competition of races will be the 'survival of the fittest?'”

“Here, also, has been evolved the form of government consistent with the largest possible civil liberty.”

“This is due partly to the fact that Americans are much better fed than Europeans, and partly to the undeveloped resources of a new country, but more largely to our climate, which acts as a constant stimulus.”

“The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe and Asia. Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history - the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled.”

“History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead.”

“If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.”

“The earliest stories in Genesis were not written to tell primeval history. They were written to tell readers about themselves and about God.”

“I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.”

“I think that if we don't get these politicians to come together we face the most predictable economic crisis in history.”

“'An Octoroon' was written over about three years but premiered in 2014. I'm writing about America's relationship to its own history. Race or not, it's a story about suppression and oppression and many populations being devalued systematically.”