State of the Union Addresses of Theodore Roosevelt
State of the Union Addresses of Theodore Roosevelt

Author: Theodore Roosevelt

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-09-09

Total Pages: 646

ISBN-13: 3387037864

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The Works of Theodore Roosevelt
The Works of Theodore Roosevelt

Author: Theodore Roosevelt

Publisher: General Books

Published: 2009-08

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 9781458909398

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III THE MONROE DOCTRINE1 THE Monroe Doctrine should not be considered from any purely academic standpoint, but as a broad, general principle of living policy. It is to be justified not by precedent merely, but by the needs of the nation and the true interests of Western civilization. It, of course, adds strength to our position at this moment to show that the action of the national authorities is warranted by the actions of their predecessors on like occasions in time past, and that the line of policy we are now pursuing is that which has been pursued by all our statesmen of note since the Republic grew sufficiently powerful to make what it said of weight in foreign affairs. But even if in time past we had been as blind to the national honor and welfare as are the men who at the present day champion the anti-American side of the Venezuelan question, it would now be necessary for statesmen who were both far-sighted and patriotic to enunciate the principles for which the Monroe Doctrine stands. In other words, if theMonroe Doctrine did not already exist it would be necessary forthwith to create it. 1 The Bachelor of Arts, March, 1896. Let us first of all clear the question at issue by brushing away one or two false objections. Lord Salisbury at first put in emphatic words his refusal in any way to recognize the Monroe Doctrine as part of the law of nations or as binding upon Great Britain. Most British statesmen and publicists followed his lead; but recently a goodly number have shown an inclination to acquiesce in the views of Lord Salisbury's colleague, Mr. Chamberlain, who announces, with bland indifference to the expressed opinion of his nominal chief, that England does recognize the existence of the Monroe Doctrine and never thought of ignoring it. Lord Sal...