Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shirk neither. We have become a great nation, forced by the fact of its greatness into relations with other nations of the earth, and we must behave as beseems a people with such responsibilities.
America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused - preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.