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Teddy Roosevelt: If it is morally indefensible to hold the archipelago as a whole under our tutelage in the interest of its own people…

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If it is morally indefensible to hold the archipelago as a whole under our tutelage in the interest of its own people, then it is morally indefensible to hold any part of it.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt argues against the moral justification for holding any part of the Philippines under U.S. control.

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