What is an example of nationalism and imperialism going hand in hand?

In the United States, during the late nineteenth century, leading advocates of imperialism argued that the United States should expand and seize colonies around the world as a matter of national honor. As Senator Albert Beveridge, a leading promoter of imperialism put it in a famous speech, memorable for his image of the "march of the flag":

[I]t is ours to set the world its example of` right and honor. We can not fly from our...

In the United States, during the late nineteenth century, leading advocates of imperialism argued that the United States should expand and seize colonies around the world as a matter of national honor. As Senator Albert Beveridge, a leading promoter of imperialism put it in a famous speech, memorable for his image of the "march of the flag":

[I]t is ours to set the world its example of` right and honor. We can not fly from our world duties; it is ours to execute the purpose of a fate that has driven us to be greater than our small intentions. We can not retreat from any soil where Providence has unfurled our banner; it is ours to save that soil for liberty and civilization.

Beveridge's argument was a common one among American imperialists: The United States, as a democratic nation and the heir of Anglo-Saxon traditions, had the right and the obligation to spread its influence around the world. For many people in the United States, then, imperialism became inseparable from national identity. Theodore Roosevelt made a similar point when he called for Americans to pursue imperialism out of a desire for "what every self-respecting American demands from himself" and what "shall be demanded of the American nation as a whole." Imperialists thought that to become (or continue to be) a great nation, the United States had to become an imperialist nation. So, at the turn of the twentieth century, imperialism and nationalism went hand in hand in the United States.