Teddy Roosevelt and Big Stick Diplomacy --Speak softly; carry a big stick:you will go farThe Big Stick ideology is the idea of negotiating peacefully with threat using the military. The phrase speak softly and carry a big stick became synonymous with Roosevelts tactics, both in foreign policy and in domestic politics. In his tactics, diplomacy and negotiation was always the speak softly element; the U.S. military and threat of force was the big stick.
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