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The home country might treat her colonies well or ill, she might cherish and guard them, or oppress them with harshness and severity, but she never treated them as equals.
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gutenberg.orgTeddy Roosevelt: “The home country might treat her colonies well or ill, she might cherish and guard them, or oppress them with harshness…”
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Roosevelt explains that colonies were never treated as equals by their home countries, regardless of the treatment they received.
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