Selected Articles on the Monroe DoctrineH.W. Wilson Company, 1915 - 253 pages |
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... limited expression , was entirely natural . Although not without an antecedent history of con- ception and occasional utterance by American statesmen , its moment of birth was the announcement by Monroe ; and it had then all the ...
... limited expression , was entirely natural . Although not without an antecedent history of con- ception and occasional utterance by American statesmen , its moment of birth was the announcement by Monroe ; and it had then all the ...
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... limited to verbal insistence ; and the outcome was positive , if not wholly satisfactory on the score of our own concessions . The subsequent intervention of Louis Napoleon in Mexico came most aptly to confirm this result . Nothing ...
... limited to verbal insistence ; and the outcome was positive , if not wholly satisfactory on the score of our own concessions . The subsequent intervention of Louis Napoleon in Mexico came most aptly to confirm this result . Nothing ...
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... limited to protection against the permanent subjugation of any portion of the territory of Mexico or of any other Amer- ican state by any European Power whatever . Two years later , Cass , in a letter to our minister in Paris , declared ...
... limited to protection against the permanent subjugation of any portion of the territory of Mexico or of any other Amer- ican state by any European Power whatever . Two years later , Cass , in a letter to our minister in Paris , declared ...
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... limited to what we Americans erroneously regard as typical Latin- American states , that is , the states within the zone of the Carib- bean . The new applications of the simple principle announced by President Monroe in 1823 have ...
... limited to what we Americans erroneously regard as typical Latin- American states , that is , the states within the zone of the Carib- bean . The new applications of the simple principle announced by President Monroe in 1823 have ...
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... limited , perhaps we may form a juster sense of its usefulness , its meaning , its legality . But before all and throughout all we must keep in mind that it is a policy , not a law , municipal or international . The distinc- tions ...
... limited , perhaps we may form a juster sense of its usefulness , its meaning , its legality . But before all and throughout all we must keep in mind that it is a policy , not a law , municipal or international . The distinc- tions ...
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Page 123 - The question presented by the letters you have sent me, is the most momentous which has ever been offered to my contemplation since that of Independence. That made us a nation, this sets our compass and points the course which we are to steer through the ocean of time opening on us.
Page 30 - I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old.
Page 6 - The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop.
Page 66 - Our policy in regard to Europe, which was adopted at an early stage of the wars which have so long agitated that quarter of the globe, nevertheless remains the same, which is, not to interfere in the internal concerns of any of its powers...
Page 67 - It is still the true policy of the "United States to leave the parties to themselves, in the hope that other powers will pursue the same course.
Page 9 - Our first and fundamental maxim should be, never to entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe. Our second, never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cisAtlantic affairs.
Page 12 - To-day the United States is practically sovereign on this continent, and its fiat is law upon the subjects to which it confines its interposition.
Page 142 - I want to take this occasion to say that the United States will never again seek one additional foot of territory by conquest. She will devote herself to showing that she knows how to make honorable and fruitful use of the territory she has, and she must regard it as one of the duties of friendship to see that from no quarter are material interests made superior to human liberty and national opportunity.
Page 77 - All that this country desires is to see the neighboring countries stable, orderly, and prosperous. Any country whose people conduct themselves well can count upon our hearty friendship. If a nation shows that it knows how to act with reasonable efficiency and decency in social and political matters, if it keeps order and pays its obligations, it need fear no interference from the United States.
Page 65 - Practically, the principle for which we contend has peculiar, if not exclusive, relation to the United States. It may not have been admitted in so many words to the code of international law, but since in international councils every nation is entitled to the rights belonging to it, if the enforcement of the Monroe doctrine is something we may justly claim, it has its place in the code of international law as certainly and as securely as if it were specifically mentioned...