‘Then let me revise that statement,’ he continued softly, a strange lethalness to that quiet tones that sent a faint shiver down my spine. ‘Watch yourself around me.
Yourmother then heldyou in her arms and continuedsoftly, 'ourbaby looks so pretty in the bluecoat. TellhimIlovehim and I will watch overhim wherever he goes.
The expansionist impulse continued under Teddy Roosevelt, whose big stick (carry one, while talking softly, he advised) and amendments to the Monroe Doctrine (his corollary proclaimed the United States' right to intervene anywhere in Latin America to prevent the Europeans doing so) have helped to make him a hero in today's Washington.