Teddy Roosevelt: “To withdraw our Government from the islands at this time would mean to…”

On the record

To withdraw our Government from the islands at this time would mean to the average native the loss of his barely won civil freedom.

Said by

Republican · New York

Source

Roosevelt argues that withdrawing U.S. governance from the Philippines would jeopardize the civil freedoms of the natives.

More from Teddy Roosevelt

Oct 13, 1912

I am all right and you cannot escape listening to the speech either.

Oct 13, 1912

I am not sick at all. I am all right.

Oct 13, 1912

Don’t you pity me. I am all right.

Oct 13, 1912

I am absorbed in the success of that movement.

Other voices in this conversation

Teddy Roosevelt: “To withdraw our Government from the islands at this time would mean to the average native the loss of his barely won…”