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Excerpt from The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 30: Issued Bi-Monthly, July-December, 1907
Another thing: none Of our possessions will ever be given up until our power has begun to wane, and the days of our decline have fallen upon us. What we have we hold, is the motto of our blood. Show me an instance where - England has set up her perma nent dominion over an inferior people which she has withdrawn; an instance where Germany has done the like and withdrawn; an instance where we Americans have done the like and withdrawn. It is not in our blood to retreat from duty.
Cuba is no example; for the Platt amendment established there the most perfect suzerainty in the world, and Cuba was under potential American authority every moment that politicians, for stump speech purposes, were declaiming about our withdrawal and apostrophizing Cuba Libre. Hawaii is no example, for the dis honorable mistake Of withdrawing from those islands has been repaired. NO American public man has ever survived resistance to American territorial expansion. NO American political party has ever successfully Opposed it. The proudest monuments Of many of our greatest statesmen have been their championship of this ex panding instinct of our blood.
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