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But in these cases We still have judgment here,--that we but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return To plague the inventor.
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Sumner warns that the violent lessons of war ultimately return to haunt those who teach them.
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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.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
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.
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