Teddy Roosevelt: “If promised independence they will expect independence; not in the…”

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If promised independence they will expect independence; not in the remote future, for their descendants, but immediately, for themselves.

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Republican · New York

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Roosevelt discusses the expectations of the Filipinos regarding independence.

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