As a nation, our Indian policy is to be blamed, because of the weakness it displayed, because of its shortsightedness, and its occasional leaning to the policy of the sentimental humanitarians; and we have often promised what was impossible to perform; but there has been little wilful wrong-doing.
Roosevelt critiques the shortcomings of American Indian policy while noting a lack of intentional wrongdoing.
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