Who said speak softly

If it truly was proverbial in it ought to be easy to find earlier citations of it, but I can find none. Nor is there any known record of the phrase actually being used in West Africa before Roosevelt's time. Whether Roosevelt actually believed, for whatever reason, that the expression was West African, or whether he knew that it wasn't and was indulging in a form of 'Confucius he say' hokum in order to impart a degree of distinction to it, we don't know.

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Join Today! Text on this page is printable and can be used according to our Terms of Service. Any interactives on this page can only be played while you are visiting our website. You cannot download interactives. Encyclopedic entry. Diplomacy is the art and science of maintaining peaceful relationships between nations, groups, or individuals.

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Big Stick diplomacy is the policy of carefully mediate d negotiation "speaking softly" supported by the unspoken threat of a powerful military "big stick".