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"Happy Wednesday."--Mr. Rogers.

Embracing life to the fullest is critical and having a meaningful existence. Mr. Rogers was an iconic individual who reinforced the importance of happiness and kindness; therefore, creating a meaningful life.

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'' Who will place a price on blood that will be shed". War is being waged for trade.

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"when this nation abandons its traditions and enters upon a colonial policy, a long step will have been take toward those entanglements against which Washington and Jefferson with equal emphasis warned their countrymen."-William Jennings Bryan.

This is important because William Jennings Bryan knows that this nation will do whatever it takes to be a big power in the world. America wants as many countries as it can control.

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"What is to prevent the chinese, the Negritos and Malays from coming to our country?" -Samuel Gompers

America was so desperate for more land and power. That they ignored the possible consequences of the annexation of the Philippines.

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"Shall the American people continue their march toward the commercial supremacy of the world?"-Albert Beveridge. This shows the intent of the U.S. in total domination of the world. Being in control of other countries.

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"Will It Pay", William Jennings Bryant. "The farmers and laboring men constitute a large majority of the American people; What is there in annexation for them? Heavier taxes, Asiatic emigration and an opportunity to furnish more sons for the army." This is important because William Jennings Bryant is saying that annexation will only hurt people for the worst.

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"In a country such as ours the conditions and opportunities of the wage-earners are profoundly affected by the view of the worth of dignity of men who earned their bread by their hands." --Samuel Gompers

This is important because if we let people into our country then we will lose opportunities and we will have less of a chance to succeed. If we lose opportunities, then we will no longer feel prioritized and we will be angry. We earned our jobs and people are taking them away.

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"No mission to perform no duty to discharge to our fellow man" Albert Beveridge means that a single mission should not have the duty to discharge a fellow man who is not in the mission

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who will place a price upon the blood that will be shed-- William Jennings Bryan

Its basically saying if we go to war to become imperialists then there will be a lot of blood shed and no one wants to pay the price for that.

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"In the forcible annexation of the Philippines our Nation neither adds to its strength nor secures broader opportunities for the American people."--William Jennings Bryan.

There is no gain with the Philippines just major loss. We will lose a lot of money and even if we make back the money we will still lose many lives.

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"March of the Flag"--Albert Beveridge

"Shall we occupy new markets for what our farmers raise, our factories make, and please God, new markets for what our ships shall carry?" This shows the importance of trade and markets during the imperialism period as Hawaii was a good trading post for America to bring in goods from other countries.

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"who can estimate in money and men the cost of subduing and keeping in subjection eight millions of people, six thousand miles away, scattered over twelve hundred islands and living under a tropical sun"- William Jennings Bryan. This quote is important because it means that the cost of lives are immeasurable and that imperialism caused so many deaths

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"Investing in ships, armament and in the equipment of soldiers is returned dollar for dollar, who will place a price upon blood that will be shed?"- William Jennings Bryan

This is importent by stating that lives are morev valuible then the annexation of Hawaii. Also it shows that annextion is exspensive with money and lives and could cost us millions in money and protection of our soilders.

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Shall the American people continue their march toward the commercial supremacy of the world?"- Alert Beveridge. This shows the intent of the U.S. in total dominance of the world in the form of annexation.

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It is an a noble land that God has given us,a land that can feed and clothe the world,a land whose coastlines would in close half the countries of Europe,a land set like a sentinel between the two imperial oceans of the globe,a greater England with a nobler destiny.Albert Beveridge.This is important because its talks about God and how God is always on Americas Side.

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"Who will lace a price upon the blood that will be shed?" - William Jennings Bryan.

This quote is important because it states how imperialism can be dangerous. America is willing to do anything even with so much bloodshed just to be the most powerful nation with more countries adding on to become stronger, even with all these deaths of men and soldiers.

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A quote from George F. Hoar's. It was during the speech on July 18th 1898. "Imperialism is a policy that leads nations to empires by the wrongful taking of other people's territory. pretense of extending humane government or making an orderly administrations of underdeveloped regions."

This is important because George F. Hoar's was against imperialism and knew that it was wrong and would take the U.S. down the wrong path if we kept going this direction

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"In the forcible annexation of the Philippines our nation neither adds to its strength nor secures broader opportunities for the American people"-William Jennings Bryan

This is important because William Jennings Bryan saw that there wasn't really a point to taking control over another country and pushing a race away cause we wouldn't benefit from it. Plus it would be expensive for America

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-Samuel Cooper said -"A foreing war as a cure of the domestic discontent" I think its important because it represents that this imperialism war was just a thing of the government it didn't represent the population because it was a problem for them, and also is saying that the government was trying to fix their internal problems with the annexation of other countries just for look like an strong country, and make see to their citizents that they are doing a good work so they don't have internal problems

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"Monopoly can thrive" - William Jennings Bryan

This is important. Americas desperation for money the people native to hawaii but also opened doors that would not be open otherwise.

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"who will pay the price upon the blood that will be shed if war is to be waged for trade how much trade ought to be demanded in exchange for human life? and will the man who expects to secure the trade risk his own life of someone else?"

is important beacause the demanded for a standing army of one hundred thosand men is the begining of a policy which will increase the hours of toil fill homes of the land with vacant people