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Even if the former does not absolutely exclude the latter, yet it is evident that it must exercise a controlling influence.
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Sumner notes the influence of military power on civil governance during wartime.
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I agree with the Convention in the importance of the new organization; nor do I think there are many candid persons, recognizing morals as the soul of all true politics, who will hesitate in this conclusion.
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.
Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
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