The nation thus submitting would be soon involved in the quarrels of its master, and would be compelled to exhaust its blood and its treasure, not for its own liberty, its own independence, or its own rights, but for the aggrandizement of its oppressor.
Beveridge warns against the dangers of submitting to foreign powers, emphasizing the cost to national liberty.
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