Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

I have a great contempt for the brawler, and not merely contempt but the most active dislike for the man who bullies whomsoever is weaker, w...

It is our duty, as far as we are able, to try to help upward our weaker brothers.

Fossilization, of course, means death, whether to an individual, a government, or a doctrine.

No stable and growing American republic wishes to see some great non-American military power acquire territory in its neighborhood.