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The Monroe Doctrine was expressed during President Monroe's seventh annual message to Congress, December 2, 1823:
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to the minister of the United States at St. Petersburg to arrange by amicable negotiation the respective rights and interests of the two nations on the northwest coast of this continent.
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Government of Great Britain, which has likewise been acceded t
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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 powers. . .
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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
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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
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Our policy in regard to Europe
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is, not to interfere in the internal concerns of any of its powers;
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It is impossible that the allied powers should extend their political system to any portion of either continent without endangering our peace and happiness; nor can anyone believe that our southern brethren, if left to themselves, would adopt it of their own accord
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