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The principle that force is right, is become the principle of the nation itself.
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gutenberg.orgAlbert Beveridge: “The principle that force is right, is become the principle of the nation itself.”
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Beveridge critiques the moral implications of a nation that adopts the principle of force as its guiding tenet.
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