ch 27 p2 Flashcards
(7 cards)
“A subject race is on’y funny whin it’s raaly subjek…About three years ago I stopped laughin’ at Japanese jokes.”
Finley Peter Dunne’s Mr. Dooley character
Commander of The Great White Fleet says that he was prepared for “a feast, a frolic, or a fight”
Commander of The Great White Fleet says that he was prepared for “a feast, a frolic, or a fight”
“Every Senator I see says, ‘For God’s sake, don’t let it appear we have any understanding with England.’ How can I make bricks without straw? That we should be compelled to refuse the assistance of the greatest power in the world [Britain], in carrying out our own policy, because all Irishmen are Democrats and some [American] Germans are fools–is enough to drive a man mad”
John Hay
“I have been hoping and praying for three months that the Santo Domingans would behave so that I would not have to act in any way. I want to do nothing but what a policeman has to do….As for annexing the island, I have about the same desire to annex it as a gorged boa-constrictor might have to swallow a porcupine wrong-end-to.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Speak softly and carry a big stick, [and] you will go far”
Theodore Roosevelt
“little brown brothers”
William H. Taft, civil governor of Philippines, calls the Filipinos this
“Kill foreign devils”
Boxer Rebellion motto
