[regarding US conquest of the Philippines] I turn green in bed at midnight if I think of the horror of a year's warfare in the Philippines ... We must slaughter a million or two foolish Malays in order to give them the comforts of flannel petticoats and electric railways.
"The Letters of Henry Adams, Volume IV: 1892-1899". Book by Henry Adams, 1988.
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