Samuel Huntington Quotes (14 Quotes)

I think it makes sense to try to contain China and limit the expansion of Chinese influence in other Asian countries.

Before that we had thought of ourselves in large part as being defined religiously 98 percent of Americans were Protestant.

Civilizations evolve over time, and most scholars of civilization, including people like Carol Quigley, argue that they go through periods of warring states, and eventually evolve into a universal state.

One doesn't know whether that economic growth will continue at its recent rates, and China may well go into an economic slide.

Yes, immigrants and immigration have been an important part of the American history. But they are not all American history.

From 1882 until the 1950s, a whole series of legislation excluded immigrants from Asia from coming to our society.

But we have to recognize the limits on our power and the fact that our ability to bring about changes in other societies is, is declining.

Back then that was pretty clear, and there were great pressures, and a certain amount of coercion, to ensure that immigrants did assimilate to the Anglo-Protestant culture, work ethnic, and the principles of the American Creed.

And Asian societies and Muslim societies are increasingly resentful of our efforts to induce them to adopt our values.

Well, I think as far as China is concerned, it's the economic dynamism of China, which has already made China more assertive in world affairs.

The founding fathers added the propositional dimension to American identity at the time of the Revolution. How else were they going to justify themselves in rebelling against the British monarchy

A partial truth, on the other hand, is plausible, because there is evidence to support it. And hence, it is easy to assume that it is the total truth.

A public intellectual is not primarily a journalist, it is someone who has a university background and addresses a wider public than academics of the same background, he added

There's only one non-western territory that I can think is still run by a western government, and that's Hong Kong.