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We hope to do for them what has never before been done for any people of the tropics--to make them fit for self-government after the fashion of the really free nations.
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gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
This quote reflects Roosevelt's ambition to prepare tropical nations for self-governance like that of free nations.
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One of the chief principles for which I have stood, and for which I now stand, and which I have always endeavored and always shall endeavor to reduce to action, is the genuine rule of the people.
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