The United States has, and ought to have, and must ever have, only the desire to see her sister commonwealths in the Western Hemisphere continue to flourish, and the determination that no Old World power shall acquire new territory here on this Western Continent.
Roosevelt outlines the United States' dual foreign policy objectives in the Western Hemisphere: fostering the prosperity of sister nations and preventing new territorial acquisition by Old World powers.
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