“Even as the United States has risen to become the predominant international power, however, conflict has persisted over the nature of American society itself and what its role in the world should be.”
2000s, The Century: A Nation's-Eye View (2002)
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Source: The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism, with Noam Chomsky, 1979, p. 1.

BuzzFlash interview (2004)

Attributed to Grant in: Fred G. Taylor (1944) A saga of sugar. p. 197

“The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone.”
As quoted in Quotations for Our Time (1977), by Laurence J. Peter, p. 509
1970s

News conference in Ottawa, Canada http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/10/26/113322/93, October 26, 2005.

Interview with Monte Leach, Peace is possible, peace is inevitable, Share International (July 2003) http://www.share-international.org/magazine/old_issues/2003/july_03.htm#voice.

Diplomacy https://books.google.com/books?id=VPHQMG3Ue1wC&pg=PA21 (1994), p. 21
1990s

Variant: That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

“China, in short has the potential to be considerably more powerful than even the United States.”
Source: The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (2001), Chapter 10, Great Power Politics in the Twenty First Century, p. 398