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“We are not a young people with an innocent record and a scanty inheritance... We have engrossed to ourselves an altogether disproportionate share of the wealth and traffic of the world. We have got all we want in territory, and our claim to be left in the unmolested enjoyment of vast and splendid possessions, mainly acquired by violence, largely maintained by force, often seems less reasonable to others than to us.”
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- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.60
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- d977516d70ff911dde91e029f2c65c002ac308289e0f5c5726e15cb611c52d1b
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