U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt said as early as 1901, "We hope to do for them what has never been done for any people of the tropics—to make them fit for self-government after the fashion of really free nations."
美国总统西奥多·罗斯福早在1901年就表示，“我们希望为他们做一些其他国家从未为热带国家人民做过的事情-让他们在真正适合自由国家之后自治。