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Not to make it is abandonment of present duty; and not to assert the power is abandonment of an essential right of self-defence.
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He warns that failing to assert the Senate's power is a neglect of essential self-defense rights.
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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.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
Tendencies of nations, as revealed in history, teach that our aims are in harmony with prevailing laws, which God, in his benevolence, has ordained for mankind.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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