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Before you is the plain alternative of the ballot-box or the cartridge-box: choose ye between them.
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This quote presents a stark choice between democratic participation and violent conflict.
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Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
Their existence is a disgrace to civilization; for it implies the common consent of nations to the Arbitrament of War, as regulated by these laws.
Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
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