How did men like Teddy Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge justify American imperial

Question: How did men like Teddy Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge justify American imperialism!?
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America is the strongest nation on earth therefore "might makes right!." We take over weaker, less educated , less advanced countries not because it is right or moral but because we can!. World politics is not a church picnic it is a struggle of the fittest nations to overpower the weaker nations!. If America never asserted itself and didn't advance and didn't take what we could then we would be Mexico!. See the difference!?

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