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By James Monroe
We owe it, therefore, to candor and to the amicable relations existing between the United States and those powers to declare that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety.
- Source
- 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 second key passage of the Monroe Doctrine. "Their system" is the political system of the allied European powers (the monarchies of the Holy Alliance), which Monroe contrasted with the system of the United States.