Not only there does not exist now, but there never has existed in recent times, any nation so wholly free as this is from any danger of excessive militarism, so wholly free from any danger of an undue growth of the military spirit.
He asserts that the U.S. is free from the threat of excessive militarism, a point he believes is historically accurate.
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I care for the great deeds of the past chiefly as spurs to drive us onward in the present.
One of the chief principles for which I have stood, and for which I now stand, and which I have always endeavored and always shall endeavor to reduce to action, is the genuine rule of the people.
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