We have not considered the use of force for such a purpose consistent with that respect for the independent sovereignty of other members of the family of nations which is the most important principle of international law and the chief protection of weak nations against the oppression of the strong.
Roosevelt articulates the importance of respecting the sovereignty of nations and the role of international law in protecting weaker nations.
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The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.
The man who does nothing cuts the same sordid figure in the pages of history, whether he be cynic, or fop, or voluptuary.
No man is worth his salt in public life who makes on the stump a pledge which he does not keep after election; and, if he makes such a pledge and does not keep it, hunt him out of public life.
The boundaries of said National Forest are now as shown on the said diagram.
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