England did not love us so much, but she loved France so much less.

For the same reasons which I have suggested before, self-interest, behind which lay her democratic kinship with our ideals, ranged her with us.
To place my third jackstraw, which follows twenty years after the second, uninterruptedly in this group, I pass over for the moment our War of 1812.

To that I will return after I have dealt with the third jackstraw, namely, the Monroe Doctrine.

It was England that suggested the Monroe Doctrine to us.

From the origin of this in the mind of Canning to its public announcement upon our side of the water, the pattern to which I have alluded is for the third time very clearly to be seen.
How much did your school histories tell you about the Monroe Doctrine?
I confess that my notion of it came to this: President Monroe informed the kings of Europe that they must keep away from this hemisphere.