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The Monroe Doctrine
In the discussions to which this interest has given rise, and in the
arrangements by which they may terminate, the occasion has been deemed
proper for asserting as a principle in which rights and interests of the
United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and
independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth
not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European
power . . . We owe it, therefore, to candor and to the amicable relations
existing between the United States and those powers to declare that we
should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any
portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety. With the
existing colonies or dependencies of any European power we have not
interfered and shall not interfere. But with the governments who have
declared their independence and maintain it, and whose independence we have,
on great consideration and on just principles, acknowledged, we could not
view any interposition for the purpose of oppressing them or controlling in
any other manner their destiny by any European power in any other light than
as the manifestation of an unfriendly disposition toward the United States.