Teddy Roosevelt Quote on Territorial Conquest Jul 21, 2018
Quoted from Theodore Roosevelt’s 1894 book The Winning of the West, in which he presents his defense for territorial expansion of superior races: Many good persons seem prone to speak of all wars of conquest as necessarily evil. This is of course a shortsighted view. In its after effects a conquest may be fraught either with evil or with good for mankind, according to the comparative worth of the conquering and conquered peoples. It is useless to try to generalize about conquests simply as such in the abstract; each case or set of cases must be judged by itself. The...
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