America has a set of interests distinct from those of Europe, and peculiarly her own. She should therefore have a system of her own, separate and apart from that of Europe. While the last is laboring to become the domicile of despotism, our endeavor should surely be to make our hemisphere that of freedom. | Thomas Jefferson, 1823 letter to James Monroe (cited by Jamelle Bouie)[1]
note the hemisphere mention. ↩︎