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The State, once tasting this blood, sees only an easy way of obtaining the means it desires; and other States will yield to the same temptation.
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He warns that once a state begins taxing commerce, it will be tempted to continue and expand such practices.
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But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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.
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.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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