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" Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make laws? Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends? Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides and no gain on either,... "
Great Debates in American History: The Civil War - Page 22
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Why We War: The Human Investment in Slaughter and the Possibilities of Peace

Al Smith - History - 2006 - 474 pages
...faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends? Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and...cease fighting, the identical old questions as to term John Stuart Mill Confidence in the principles of an enemy must remain even during war, otherwise...
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Life of Abraham Lincoln

Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 896 pages
...clearly enunciated, four years ago, this undeniable truth : " Suppose you go to war, you can not fight always ; and when, after much loss on both sides,...gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you." In the angry commotion, excited by self-willed...
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House of Abraham: Lincoln and the Todds, a Family Divided by War

Stephen William Berry - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 318 pages
...their relation was permanent. "Suppose you go to war," Lincoln reminded them all; "you cannot fight always; and when after much loss on both sides, and...either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions . . . are again upon you." It would be four years before Lincoln's words were fully understood. The...
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Abraham Lincoln: Friend of the People

Clara Ingram Judson - Literary prizes - 2007 - 212 pages
...from each other, nor build an impassable wall between. . . . Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides and...either you cease fighting, the identical old questions . . . are again upon you. . . . Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time . . . Intelligence, patriotism,...
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The Raven

Mark W. Holdren - Fiction - 2007 - 192 pages
...Lincoln?" someone asked. "Lincoln said this country belongs to the people who inhabit it," Cheney began. "'Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.'" "So.. .what do you say will happen, or, is happening,...
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Abstract Expressionism: The International Context

Joan M. Marter - Art - 2007 - 322 pages
...Expressionists. They were well aware of the contradictions on native grounds. They heard Paul Robeson sing "This country with its institutions belongs to the people who inhabit it," which incidentally, is from Abraham Lincoln's first inaugural address,30 and they witnessed how those...
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The Inspired Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: How Faith Shaped an American ...

Philip L. Ostergard - Biography & Autobiography - 2008 - 293 pages
...faithfully enforced between aliens, than laws can among friends? Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and...questions, as to terms of intercourse, are again upon you. "... Our national strife springs not from our permanent part; not from the land we inhabit; not from...
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