Teddy Roosevelt: “No one people ever benefited another people more than we have…”

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No one people ever benefited another people more than we have benefited the Filipinos by taking possession of the islands.

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Republican · New York

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Roosevelt asserts that the United States has greatly benefited the Filipino people through its governance of the islands.

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