“Each act of aggression, each new expedition of conquest is prefaced by a pronouncement containing a moral justification and an assurance to the victims of the imperial aggression that all is being done for their benefit.”

— Richard F. Pettigrew

Imperial Washington (1922), pp. 346-347

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