(原文："the United States does indeed occupy a privileged position in Empire, but this privilege derives not from its similarities to the old European imperialist powers, but from its differences.")Negri, Antonio; Hardt, Michael. Empire. Harvard University Press. 2000: xiii–xiv [2007-03-29]. ISBN 978-0-674-00671-3. （原始内容存档于2021-04-12）.
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(原文："the United States, from the time it gained its own independence, has used every available means—political, economic, and military—to help and nurture other nations.")Lens, Sidney. The Forging of the American Empire. Haymarket Books and Pluto Press. 2003. ISBN 978-0-7453-2100-4. Book jacket.
(原文："the United States has pursued imperial policies, especially toward weak countries in the periphery. But U.S. relations with Europe, Japan, China, and Russia cannot be described as imperial... the use or threat of force is unthinkable. Their economies are deeply interwoven... they form a political order built on bargains, diffuse reciprocity, and an array of intergovernmental institutions and ad hoc working relationships. This is not empire; it is a U.S.-led democratic political order that has no name or historical antecedent.")Ikenberry, G. John. Illusions of Empire: Defining the New American Order. Foreign Affairs. March–April 2004. （原始内容存档于2012-07-09）.
(原文："we don't seek empires. We're not imperialistic. We never have been.")Bookman, Jay. Let's just say it's not an empire. Atlanta Journal-Constitution. 2003-06-25. （原始内容存档于2007年2月3日）.
(原文："the United States has pursued imperial policies, especially toward weak countries in the periphery. But U.S. relations with Europe, Japan, China, and Russia cannot be described as imperial... the use or threat of force is unthinkable. Their economies are deeply interwoven... they form a political order built on bargains, diffuse reciprocity, and an array of intergovernmental institutions and ad hoc working relationships. This is not empire; it is a U.S.-led democratic political order that has no name or historical antecedent.")Ikenberry, G. John. Illusions of Empire: Defining the New American Order. Foreign Affairs. March–April 2004. （原始内容存档于2012-07-09）.
(原文："in Britain, empire was justified as a benevolent “white man’s burden.” And in the United States, empire does not even exist; “we” are merely protecting the causes of freedom, democracy, and justice worldwide.")Magdoff, Harry; John Bellamy Foster. After the Attack...The War on Terrorism. 當月評論. November 2001, 53 (6): 7 [2007-03-29]. （原始内容存档于2011-03-17）.
(原文："the United States was least likely to intervene in those nations (such as Argentina and Costa Rica) where American investors held the biggest stakes. The longest occupations were undertaken in precisely those countries--Nicaragua, Haiti, the Dominican Republic--where the United States had the smallest economic stakes... Unlike the Dutch in the East Indies, the British in Malaya, or the French in Indochina, the Americans left virtually no legacy of economic exploitation.")Boot, Max. Neither New nor Nefarious: The Liberal Empire Strikes Back. Current History. November 2003, 102 (667). （原始内容存档于2008-05-15）.
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Pitts, Chip. The Election on Empire. The National Interest. 2006-11-08 [2009-10-08]. （原始内容存档于2009-07-26）.
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(原文："If we really are imperial, we rule over a very funny sort of empire... The United States hasn't annexed anyone's soil since the Spanish-American War... Imperial powers order and subjects obey. But in our case, we offer the Turks strategic guarantees, political support — and money... Isolationism, parochialism, and self-absorption are far stronger in the American character than desire for overseas adventurism.")Hanson, Victor Davis. A Funny Sort of Empire. National Review. November 2002 [2007-03-29]. （原始内容存档于2008-05-11）.
(原文："With the exception of the purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867, American territory had remained fixed since 1848. In the 1890s a new spirit of expansion took hold... Yet Americans, who had themselves thrown off the shackles of empire, were not comfortable with administering one. In 1902 American troops left Cuba... The Philippines obtained... complete independence in 1946. Puerto Rico became a self-governing commonwealth... and Hawaii became a state in 1959.")ed. George Clack. A brief history of the United States. A Portrait of the USA. United States Information Agency. September 1997 [2006-03-20]. （原始内容存档于2007-12-01）.
(原文："fix the premises of discourse and interpretation, and the definition of what is newsworthy in the first place, and they explain the basis and operations of what amount to propaganda campaigns.")Chomsky, Noam. Manufacturing Consent. Pantheon Books. 1988. ISBN 978-0-375-71449-8. （原始内容存档于2007-03-14）.
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(原文："proceeding along a path to which no limit can be perceived.")Kellner, Douglas. American Exceptionalism. 2003-04-25 [2006-02-20]. （原始内容存档于2006-02-17）.
(原文："proceeding along a path to which no limit can be perceived.")Kellner, Douglas. American Exceptionalism. 2003-04-25 [2006-02-20]. （原始内容存档于2006-02-17）.
(原文："in Britain, empire was justified as a benevolent “white man’s burden.” And in the United States, empire does not even exist; “we” are merely protecting the causes of freedom, democracy, and justice worldwide.")Magdoff, Harry; John Bellamy Foster. After the Attack...The War on Terrorism. 當月評論. November 2001, 53 (6): 7 [2007-03-29]. （原始内容存档于2011-03-17）.
(原文："fix the premises of discourse and interpretation, and the definition of what is newsworthy in the first place, and they explain the basis and operations of what amount to propaganda campaigns.")Chomsky, Noam. Manufacturing Consent. Pantheon Books. 1988. ISBN 978-0-375-71449-8. （原始内容存档于2007-03-14）.
(原文："the United States does indeed occupy a privileged position in Empire, but this privilege derives not from its similarities to the old European imperialist powers, but from its differences.")Negri, Antonio; Hardt, Michael. Empire. Harvard University Press. 2000: xiii–xiv [2007-03-29]. ISBN 978-0-674-00671-3. （原始内容存档于2021-04-12）.
Pitts, Chip. The Election on Empire. The National Interest. 2006-11-08 [2009-10-08]. （原始内容存档于2009-07-26）.
(原文："we don't seek empires. We're not imperialistic. We never have been.")Bookman, Jay. Let's just say it's not an empire. Atlanta Journal-Constitution. 2003-06-25. （原始内容存档于2007年2月3日）.
(原文："I want no prisoners. I wish you to kill and burn, the more you kill and burn the better it will please me. I want all persons killed who are capable of bearing arms in actual hostilities against the United States.")Miller (1982), op. cit. p. 220. See also Wikiquote: Philippine-American War Quotes （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）.
(原文："the United States was least likely to intervene in those nations (such as Argentina and Costa Rica) where American investors held the biggest stakes. The longest occupations were undertaken in precisely those countries--Nicaragua, Haiti, the Dominican Republic--where the United States had the smallest economic stakes... Unlike the Dutch in the East Indies, the British in Malaya, or the French in Indochina, the Americans left virtually no legacy of economic exploitation.")Boot, Max. Neither New nor Nefarious: The Liberal Empire Strikes Back. Current History. November 2003, 102 (667). （原始内容存档于2008-05-15）.
(原文："If we really are imperial, we rule over a very funny sort of empire... The United States hasn't annexed anyone's soil since the Spanish-American War... Imperial powers order and subjects obey. But in our case, we offer the Turks strategic guarantees, political support — and money... Isolationism, parochialism, and self-absorption are far stronger in the American character than desire for overseas adventurism.")Hanson, Victor Davis. A Funny Sort of Empire. National Review. November 2002 [2007-03-29]. （原始内容存档于2008-05-11）.
(原文："With the exception of the purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867, American territory had remained fixed since 1848. In the 1890s a new spirit of expansion took hold... Yet Americans, who had themselves thrown off the shackles of empire, were not comfortable with administering one. In 1902 American troops left Cuba... The Philippines obtained... complete independence in 1946. Puerto Rico became a self-governing commonwealth... and Hawaii became a state in 1959.")ed. George Clack. A brief history of the United States. A Portrait of the USA. United States Information Agency. September 1997 [2006-03-20]. （原始内容存档于2007-12-01）.
(原文："I want no prisoners. I wish you to kill and burn, the more you kill and burn the better it will please me. I want all persons killed who are capable of bearing arms in actual hostilities against the United States.")Miller (1982), op. cit. p. 220. See also Wikiquote: Philippine-American War Quotes （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）.
