President William McKinley on annexing the Philippines:

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President William McKinley on annexing the
Philippines I walked the floor of the White
House night after night until midnight and I am
not ashamed to tell you gentlemen, that I went
down on my knees and prayed Almighty God for
light and guidance more than one night. And one
night late it came to me this way I dont know
how it was, but it came. (1) that we could not
give them the Philippines back to Spain that
would be cowardly and dishonorable (2) that we
could not turn them over to France or Germany
our commercial rivals in the Orient that would
be bad business and discreditable (3) that we
could not leave them to themselves they were
unfit for self-government and they would soon
have anarchy and misrule over there worse than
Spains was and (4) that there was nothing left
for us to do but to take them all and to
educate The Filipinos, and uplift and
Christianize them, and by Gods grace do the
very best we could by them, as our fellow-men
for whom Christ also died.
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Theodore Roosevelt, The Strenuous Life (1900) In
the last analysis, a healthy state can only exist
when the men and women who make it up lead clean,
vigorous, healthy lives when the children are so
trained that they shall endeavor, not to shirk
difficulties, but to overcome them not to seek
ease, but to know how to wrest triumph from toil
and risk. The man must be glad to do a man's
work, to dare and endure and to labor to keep
himself and those dependent upon him. The woman
must be the housewife, the helpmeet of the
homemaker, the wise and fearless mother of
many healthy children. He criticizes the fear
of maternity, the haunting terror of the young
wife of the present day. When such words can be
truthfully written of a nation, that nation is
rotten to the core. When men fear work or fear
righteous war, when women fear motherhood,
they tremble on the brink of doom and well it is
that they should vanish from the earth, where
they are fit subjects for the scorn of all men
and women who are themselves strong and brave and
high-minded.
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In general, the major domestic questions that
preoccupied Americans From the Civil War to the
First World War were closely intertwined with The
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