I need not say that the United States not only has no purpose of aggression upon any republic, continental or insular, to the south of us, but has the friendliest feeling toward them, and desires nothing save their progress and prosperity.
Roosevelt expresses the United States' friendly intentions towards Latin American countries and its desire for their prosperity.
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