Without maintaining a large military establishment, which besides its expense entails multiform evils, it was shown that the Republic possesses in the strong arms and patriotic hearts of its sons an unfailing source of military power.
Blaine emphasizes the importance of citizen soldiers over a large standing army for national defense.
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He had placed himself in a position from which he could not with grace retreat, and to go forward in which was still further to blight his hopes of promotion in his party.
The wisdom of maintaining that institution was abundantly vindicated by the results of the war.
This ratio of influence went into the Electoral College, and gave to the white men of South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana double the power of that enjoyed by white men in New York, Illinois and California.
If you are not ready to be the Moses of an oppressed people, do not become their Pharaoh.
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