Theodore Roosevelt shows this very sense of control in his Annual Message to Congress, "If a nation shows that it knows how to act with reasonable efficiency and decency in social and political matters, if it keeps order and pays its obligations, it need fear no interference from the United States." In this address to Congress, Theodore Roosevelt also states the opinion of the nation, the idea of supremacy. ... Roosevelt also says we will be good neighbors as long as you comply with the United States, we are superior although we do not feel a need to conquer. ...

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l. Definitions Transcendentalism- a system of philosophy, especially that associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson and other New England writers, that emphasizes intuition or the divine Romanticism- in the arts, the style and theories of the romantic movement, or the movement itself Aphorism- a ...

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At the same time, aggressive Americans like Theodore Roosevelt and congressman Henry Cabot Lodge were interpreting Darwinism to mean that the earth belonged to the strong and the fit, and that is, to Uncle Sam. ...

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