Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine

( 1904 ) Commentary by Lewis L. Gould, University of Texas at Austin

“All that this country desires is to see the neighboring countries stable, orderly, and prosperous.”

“Chronic wrongdoing, or an impotence which results in a general loosening of the ties of civilized society, may in America, as elsewhere, ultimately require intervention by some civilized nation, and in the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly, in flagrant cases of such wrongdoing or impotence, to the exercise of an international police power.”

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