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If peaceable, it must be judged by its motive and tendency; if forcible, it will naturally be resisted by force.
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Sumner states that the nature of intervention must be evaluated based on its motives and outcomes.
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They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
It is a cause which, though long kept in check throughout our country, as also in Europe, now confronts the people and their rulers, demanding to be heard.
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The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
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