Thomas Smith Roosevelt and Beveridge

After reading both pieces of literature, I feel that Roosevelt and Beveridge are getting the same point across, but focusing on different things. Beveridge seems to focus on the more conquering and militaristic side of peace. He believes that by obtaining more land and governing as many people as possible with the U.S.'s Republic, there would be more peace. Beveridge also seems to believe that we do not obtain land for the present time, but that we obtain the land for future use.

In Roosevelt's piece, Roosevelt stated that sometimes unjust peace is the worst type of peace. He said that most just peace comes through war, and that sometimes you have to go through some hard times to make things better. This really stood out to me because a lot of people say let's not do anything to keep the peace, but in actuality, it might be worse to not do anything. "The wisest and most far-seeing champions of peace will ever remember that, in the first place, to be good it must be righteous, for unrighteous and cowardly peace may be worse than any war; and, in the second place, that it can often be obtained only at the cost of war." (Roosevelt)