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Once begun, war is a law unto itself,--or, in other words, it has a law of its own, which is part of itself.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Once begun, war is a law unto itself,--or, in other words, it has a law of its own, which is part of itself.”
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Sumner asserts that once war begins, it operates under its own set of laws.
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