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Hello!

Welcome to the 33rd issue of the Panama Forum Newsletter.

Today I’ll be sharing quotes about the Panama Canal by famous world leaders.

“An interoceanic canal across the American Isthmus … would be the great ocean thoroughfare between our Atlantic and our Pacific shores, and virtually a part of the coastline of the United States. Our merely commercial interest in it is greater than that of all other countries, while its relations to our power and prosperity as a nation, to our means of defense, our unity, peace, and safety, are matters of paramount concern to the people of the United States.”
- Rutherford Birchard Hayes (U.S. president from 1877 – 1881)

“It is so manifestly incompatible with those precautions for our peace and safety, which all the great powers habitually observe and enforce in matters affecting them, that a shorter water way between our eastern and western seaboards should be dominated by any European government, that we may confidently expect that such a purpose will not be entertained by any friendly power.”
- Benjamin Harrison  (U.S. president from 1889 – 1893)

“My impression about the Panama Canal is that the great revolution it is going to introduce in the trade of the world is in the trade between the east and the west coast of the United States.”
- William Howard Taft (U.S. president from 1921 – 1930)

“Regarding the Panama Canal Treaty negotiations, they will find us standing up or dead, but never on our knees; NEVER!”
- Omar Torrijos Herrera (was the Commander of the Panamanian National Guard and the de facto leader of Panama from 1968 to 1981. Torrijos is best known for negotiating the 1977 Treaties that eventually gave Panama full sovereignty over the Panama Canal, at noon on December 31, 1999.)

Kick back, enjoy Panama, have fun and see you next week!

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