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  ...we have determined of right belongs to Venezuela.
In making these recommendations I am fully alive to the responsibility incurred and keenly realize all the consequences that may follow.
I am, nevertheless, firm in my conviction that while it is a grievous thing to contemplate the two great English-speaking peoples of the world as being otherwise than friendly competitors in the onward march of civilization and strenuous and worthy rivals in all the arts of peace, There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.  
GROVER CLEVELAND.
[Footnote 28: See p. 632.]

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, December 19, 1895_.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
In response to the resolution of the Senate of the 4th instant, requesting the President, "if in his judgment not incompatible with the public interest, to communicate to the Senate all information which has been received by him or by the State Department in regard to injuries inflicted upon the persons or property of American citizens in...   Cleveland, Grover

Excerpt from A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 8, part 2: Grover Cleveland · This quote is tagged Agreement · Search on Google Books to find all references and sources for this quotation.

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