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Neither the genius of the nation, nor the state of its own finances admit of calling its citizens from the plough but to defend their own liberty and their own firesides.
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Beveridge captures Marshall's assertion that the nation should only call its citizens to defend their liberty, not to engage in foreign wars.
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