''America as the dynamic center of ever widening spheres of enterprise,
America as the training center of skillful servants of mankind, America as the Good
Samaritan, really believing again that it is more blessed to give than to
receive, and America as the powerhouse of the ideals of Freedom and Justice - out
of these elements surely can be fashioned a vision of the 20th century to
which we can and will devote ourselves in joy and gladness and vigor and
enthusiasm. ...

''It is in this spirit that all of us are called, each to his own measure of
capacity, and each in the widest horizon of his vision, to create the first
great American Century.''

---Henry Luce, 1941, Time Magazine