“We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.”

Source: Los Angeles Times interview (1956)
Context: To me Moses is all men grown to gigantic proportions.
He was a man of immense ability, immense emotions, immense humanness and immense dedication. There is something of Moses in each of us — the more there is, the better we are.
It is interesting to note that once Moses climbs Mt. Sinai and talks to God there is never contentment for him again. That is the way it is with us. Once we talk to God, once we get his commission to us for our lives we cannot be again content. We are happier. We are busier. But we are not content because then we have a mission — a commission, rather.

2010s, 2016, September, First presidential debate (September 26, 2016)

As quoted in "Mengistu blames Meles for helping Eritrea at UN to split Ethiopia: Mengistu Haile-Mariam speaks", in Jimma Times (30 July 2010) http://www.jimmatimes.com/article/Latest_News/Latest_News/Mengistu_blames_Meles_for_helping_Eritrea_at_UN_to_split_Ethiopia/33629

Iraqi cleric calls 9/11 'miracle from God' http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/03/26/iraq.main/, CNN, March 27, 2004.

Source: Father and Child Reunion (2001), p. 197.

2010s, 2016, August, Speech at rally in Wilmington, North Carolina (August 9, 2016)

1920s, The American Soldier (1920)

UN Address (1999)

As quoted by Dick Cavett, in "The Swimmers" http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/books/review/Cavett-t.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin, The New York Times (3 June 2007)
2000s