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A disgraceful, if not indeed fatal, blot upon the Constitution and country will be this one.
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He condemns a particular amendment as a serious moral failing for the nation and its Constitution.
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In this contest, we may borrow from the ancient Greek, who, when his hands were cut off, fought with his stumps, and even with his teeth.
Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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