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The Monroe Doctrine (1823)
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.