While it was settled that the canal should be built without unnecessary or improper delay, it was no less clearly shown to be our purpose to deal not merely in a spirit of justice but in a spirit of generosity with the people through whose land we might build it.
Roosevelt expresses the intention to approach the construction of the canal with both justice and generosity towards the local populations.
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