This book contains the insight of Theodore Roosevelt regarding international relations and war and peace. Read the President's words, expressed in the midst of WWI.

Inside this text, he presents his famous quote:

"... no amount of speaking softly will save any people which does not carry a big stick."

"America should have a coherent policy of action toward foreign powers, and this should primarily be based on the determination never to give offense when it can be avoided, always to treat other nations justly and courteously, and, as long as present conditions exist, to be prepared to defend our own rights ourselves. No other nation will defend them for us. No paper guarantee or treaty will be worth the paper on which it is written if it becomes to the interest of some other power to violate it, unless we have strength, and courage and ability to use that strength, back of the treaty."

"International peace will only come when the nations of the world form some kind of league which provides for an international tribunal to decide on international matters, which decrees that treaties and international agreements are never to be entered into recklessly and foolishly, and when once entered into are to be observed with entire good faith, and which puts the collective force of civilization behind such treaties and agreements and court decisions and against any wrong-doing or recalcitrant nation."

"We feel no hostility toward any nation engaged in the present tremendous struggle. We feel an infinite sadness because of the black abyss of war into which all these nations have been plunged. We admire the heroism they have shown. We act in a spirit of warm friendliness toward all of them, even when obliged to protest against the wrong-doing of any one of them.
Our country should not shirk its duty to mankind. It can perform this duty only if it is true to itself. It can be true to itself only by definitely resolving to take the position of the just man armed; for a proud and self-respecting nation of freemen must scorn to do wrong to others and must also scorn tamely to submit to wrong done by others."

CONTENTS

I. THE DUTY OF SELF-DEFENSE AND OF GOOD CONDUCT TOWARD OTHERS
II. THE BELGIAN TRAGEDY
III. UNWISE PEACE TREATIES A MENACE TO RIGHTEOUSNESS
IV. THE CAUSES OF THE WAR
V. HOW TO STRIVE FOR WORLD PEACE
VI. THE PEACE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS
VII. AN INTERNATIONAL POSSE COMITATUS
VIII. SELF-DEFENSE WITHOUT MILITARISM
IX. OUR PEACEMAKER, THE NAVY
X. PREPAREDNESS AGAINST WAR
XI. UTOPIA OR HELL?
XII. SUMMING UP

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