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Intel - History
Monroe Doctrine

"In God we trust.
All others we monitor."

• In his second term of office he sought to prevent South America from coming into the French sphere of influence and in this he was successful.

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• We owe it...to candor and to the amicable relations existing between the United States and those [European] 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 maintained 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.

• "We cannot acknowledge the right of any power to proclaim such a principle; much less to bind other countries to the observance of it."