Where did Wilson state that the US would have to force access to markets with violence?

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Wilson did publish something similar to your quote, but you need to search with the word power instead of violence.

Here's a mention of a source:

In 1902 he published the four-volume History of the American People, which made it clear that the historian-as-politician-as-would-be-world-leader viewed economic expansion as the frontier to replace the continent that had been occupied. A section in volume 5 (which reads like a close paraphrase of some essays written by Brooks Adams) recommended increased efficiency in government so that the United States "might command the economic fortunes of the world." He concluded his analysis by stressing the need for marketsβ€”markets "to which diplomacy, and if need be power, must make an open way."


The full quote looks like this, from A History Of The American People Vol V, BY WOODROW WILSON,pg 295.

The great East was the market all the world coveted now, the market for which statesmen as well as merchants must plan and play the game of competition, the market to which diplomacy, and if need be power must make an open way.


Concerning the second portion of the quote, I find nothing resembling 'burst at the seams' or 'freely access' in either Wilson's work, or in Paul Kennedy's.

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