Monroe Doctrine

The Monroe Doctrine was the President announcing, harshly and arrogantly, that any European power who began to use the Mexican, Central American, and South American countries as client states to start attacks on the USA would be treated as having declared war on the USA.

"As was the case with Chavez's tendentious present, Ortega's speech was intended as a slap." Ann Althouse 2009

It is called the Monroe Doctrine and what it means is that the US is the supreme power, the law of the land, and anyone in this hemisphere who thinks otherwise will learn to behave.

Cuba Libre 2008

In other words, the Monroe Doctrine is a declaration that there must be no territorial aggrandizement by any non-American power at the expense of any American power on American soil.

State of the Union Address (1790-2001) United States. Presidents.

The Monroe Doctrine was the first definite notice given to Europe of America's preconceived "destiny," but the earlier realization of that destiny took place on lines of expansion within her own boundaries.

Great Britain and the American Civil War Ephraim Douglass Adams

They charge experimentation, when we have as historical precedent the Monroe Doctrine, which is the very essence of

The Progressive Democracy of James M. Cox Charles E. Morris

On the part of the United States the Monroe Doctrine was the formal and authoritative expression of a sentiment which had animated American breasts from the origin of the Republic.

The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country Henry Mann

Through the influence of the Roosevelt administration the principles of non-interference by European powers with the status of the various countries of the Western Hemisphere, known as the Monroe Doctrine, has been greatly strengthened.

Republican Hand-Book North Carolina. Republican State Executive Committee 1906 N.C. 1906

The Monroe Doctrine was a perfectly sound principle and it has been fully justified by nearly a century of experience.

From Isolation to Leadership, Revised A Review of American Foreign Policy John Holladay Latane 1900

The international situation which gave rise to the Monroe Doctrine was the most unusual in some respects that modern history records.

From Isolation to Leadership, Revised A Review of American Foreign Policy John Holladay Latane 1900

In its original form the Monroe Doctrine was a direct defiance of

From Isolation to Leadership, Revised A Review of American Foreign Policy John Holladay Latane 1900