That long frontier fromthe Atlantic tothe Pacificoceans, guarded only by neighbourly respect and honourable obligations, is an exampleto everycountryand a pattern for the future of the world.

-Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer
  Address at the Canada Club, London, 20  Apr.

Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He star'd at the Pacificöand all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmiseö Silent, upon a peak in Darien.

-Keats,John
  'On First Looking into Chapman's Homer', l.9^14. (Published in The Examiner 1816.)