“In the days of dopey dreams—happy peaceful Philippines!—when the bolomen were busy all night long! When ladrones would steal and lie and Americanos die, you heard the soldiers sing this evening song! Damn damn damn the insurrectos. Cross-eyed kakiac ladrones! Underneath the starry flag, Civilize them with a Krag and return us to our own beloved homes!”
"You have devastated
provinces, you have slain uncounted thousands of people you desire to benefit."
Senator George Frisbie Hoar, Speech to the U.S. Senate, on America's war in the Philippines, May 1902
