Charles Sumner: “The example of the Great Teacher, the practice of the early disciples, the injunctions of self-denial, love…”

“The example of the Great Teacher, the practice of the early disciples, the injunctions of self-denial, love, non-resistance to evil,--sometimes supposed to forbid Force in any exigency, even of self-defence,--all these must apply with unquestionable certainty to the established System of War.”