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Are we to plead the baby act, and claim that we can flounce around the world, breaking international china and burning property, and yet repudiate the bill because we have not come of age?
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Whitelaw Reid
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gutenberg.orgWhitelaw Reid: “Are we to plead the baby act, and claim that we can flounce around the world, breaking international china and burning…”
Editor's note · Context
Reid critiques the idea of the U.S. acting irresponsibly on the global stage as if it were still a child.
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