I firmly believe that within a year Germany will have seized the new Canal and proclaimed its defiance of the great Monroe Doctrine.
We have six million Germans in the United States, and the Irish-Americans behind them.

The Americans, believe me, are _as a nation_ a cowardly nation, and will never fight organized strength except in defense of their own territories.

With the Nova Scotian peninsula and the Bermudas, with the West Indies and the Guianas we shall be able to dominate the Americas.

By our possession of the entire Western European seaboard America can find no outlet for its products except by our favour.

Her finance is in German hands, her commercial capitals, New York and Chicago, are in reality German cities.