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To have gone faster than we have already gone in giving the islanders a constantly increasing measure of self-government would have been disastrous.
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gutenberg.orgTeddy Roosevelt: “To have gone faster than we have already gone in giving the islanders a constantly increasing measure of self-government…”
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Roosevelt warns that rushing self-governance in the Philippines could lead to negative consequences.
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