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By James Monroe
...that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.
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- Seventh Annual Message, December 2, 1823
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- The American Presidency Project, UC Santa Barbara
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From President Monroe's Seventh Annual Message to Congress, December 2, 1823, the passage that became known as the Monroe Doctrine. He was speaking of the dispute with Russia over the northwest coast of North America and the talks then under way. The quote begins mid-sentence, after "the occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved,".