I venture to say of that course that neither our duty nor our interest will permit us to stop short of a pacification which can only end in the establishment of such local self-government as the people are found capable of conducting, and its extension just as far and as fast as the people prove fit for it.
Reid advocates for a gradual approach to self-government in the Philippines, contingent on the people's readiness.
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