In 1803, when we acquired the territory stretching from the Mississippi to the Pacific, there were plenty of wise men who announced that we were acquiring a mere desert, that it was a violation of the Constitution to acquire it, and that the acquisition was fraught with the seeds of the dissolution of the Republic.
Roosevelt discusses the skepticism surrounding the acquisition of vast territories in 1803 and its implications.
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