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We want none of your laws and customs that we have not willingly adopted for ourselves. We have adopted many. You have adopted some of ours — votes for women, for instance.

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You young people in the United States may not believe what I am saying. Do not take my word, but read your history. A good deal of true history about that has got into print now.

You got half of your territory here by warfare upon redmen, usually unprovoked, and you got about a quarter of it by bribing their chiefs, and not over a quarter of it did you get openly and fairly. You might have gotten a good share of it by fair means if you had tried.

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