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“"Here on this ridge I do foresee fresh birth.    That which departed shall bring side by side,    The sea shall sever what hills did divide; Shall link in love." And there was joy on earth; Whilst England and Columbia, quitting fear, Kissed—and let in the eager waters there.”
— Sir Edwin Arnold, "Darien, A.D. 1513–A.D. 1901", st. 2; The Literary Digest, vol. 24, no. 10 (March 8, 1902), p. 337
“Who's Britannica to tell me that the Panama Canal was built in 1914? If I want to say that it was built in 1941, that's my right as an American.”
— Stephen Colbert, White House Correspondents' Dinner (April 29, 2006)
“Yea, the gateway shall be free Unto all, from sea to sea; And no fratricidal slaughter Shall defile its sacred water; But—the hand that ope'd the gate shall forever hold the key!”
— James Jeffrey Roche, "Panama", st. 6; The Literary Digest, vol. 28, no. 16 (April 16, 1904), p. 568
“I am interested in the Panama Canal because I started it. If I had followed traditional, conservative methods, I should have submitted a dignified state paper of probably two hundred pages to the Congress, and the debate would have been going on yet. But I took the Canal Zone, and let Congress debate, and while the debate goes on the canal does also.”
— Theodore Roosevelt, Speech at the University of California (March 23, 1911); Wm. Drapper Lewis, The Life of Theodore Roosevelt (1919), ch. 14
“You ain't no noble hero, an' you leave no gallant name— You're a fightin' Nature's army, an' it ain't no easy game!”
— Damon Runyon, "A Song of Panama", sts. 1, 8; Munsey's Magazine, vol. 36, no. 4 (January, 1907), p. 468
“There are 20,000 British coloured people working on the canal & they gave me a good welcome; they are mostly from Jamaica & smell too revolting for words, poor brutes!! ... Panamanians are a very queer people, all dagoes of course, though very pompous and dirty.”
— Edward Windsor (then Prince of Wales), Letter to Mrs. Freda Dudley Ward (April 1, 1920); Rupert Godfrey (ed.) Letters from a Prince (1998), pp. 264–5

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Not who you're looking for? Others named Panama: sovereign state in Central America · episode of Prison Break · Australian electronica band · breed of sheep

Notable quotes

“"Here on this ridge I do foresee fresh birth.    That which departed shall bring side by side,    The sea shall sever what hills did divide; Shall link in love." And there was joy on earth; Whilst England and Columbia, quitting fear, Kissed—and let in the eager waters there.”
— Sir Edwin Arnold, "Darien, A.D. 1513–A.D. 1901", st. 2; The Literary Digest, vol. 24, no. 10 (March 8, 1902), p. 337
“Who's Britannica to tell me that the Panama Canal was built in 1914? If I want to say that it was built in 1941, that's my right as an American.”
— Stephen Colbert, White House Correspondents' Dinner (April 29, 2006)
“Yea, the gateway shall be free Unto all, from sea to sea; And no fratricidal slaughter Shall defile its sacred water; But—the hand that ope'd the gate shall forever hold the key!”
— James Jeffrey Roche, "Panama", st. 6; The Literary Digest, vol. 28, no. 16 (April 16, 1904), p. 568
“I am interested in the Panama Canal because I started it. If I had followed traditional, conservative methods, I should have submitted a dignified state paper of probably two hundred pages to the Congress, and the debate would have been going on yet. But I took the Canal Zone, and let Congress debate, and while the debate goes on the canal does also.”
— Theodore Roosevelt, Speech at the University of California (March 23, 1911); Wm. Drapper Lewis, The Life of Theodore Roosevelt (1919), ch. 14
“You ain't no noble hero, an' you leave no gallant name— You're a fightin' Nature's army, an' it ain't no easy game!”
— Damon Runyon, "A Song of Panama", sts. 1, 8; Munsey's Magazine, vol. 36, no. 4 (January, 1907), p. 468
“There are 20,000 British coloured people working on the canal & they gave me a good welcome; they are mostly from Jamaica & smell too revolting for words, poor brutes!! ... Panamanians are a very queer people, all dagoes of course, though very pompous and dirty.”
— Edward Windsor (then Prince of Wales), Letter to Mrs. Freda Dudley Ward (April 1, 1920); Rupert Godfrey (ed.) Letters from a Prince (1998), pp. 264–5

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.