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Mckenzie Church

29 April, 09:16

All that this country desires is to see the neighboring

countries stable, orderly, and prosperous. Any country

whose people conduct themselves well can count upon

our hearty friendship. 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. Chronic

wrongdoing, or an impotence which results in a general

loosening of the ties of civilized society, may in America,

as elsewhere, ultimately require intervention by some

civilized nation.

-President Theodore Roosevelt, "Message to Congress,"

December 6, 1904

This statement was intended to justify which type of policy?

A. Laissez-faire

B. Democracy

C. Nationalism

D. Imperialism