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In the first place we must as a Nation make it evident that we do not intend to treat it in any shape or way as an excuse for aggrandizement on our part at the expense of the republics to the south.
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Roosevelt asserts that the Monroe Doctrine should not be used as a justification for U.S. expansionism.
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