Edmund Quincey WWP179+:
He who believes that any countenance given to a military system, is a consent to the principles upon which all systems rest, and to the consequences which are their unfailing concomitants, can hardly reconcile the least compliance with their requisitions, with a true sense of duty. All the elements of bloodshed, fraud, violence, rapine and contempt of the rights of others, all the base and brutal passions, the hatred, malice, revenge, all the irreligion, immorality and vice of which war is the unhallowed source, are wrapped up in the system which at set times fills our streets with mimic warriors, as truly as in any of the great military establishments of the old world. The spirit is there, though it be dormant. ... He who is not against the system of which this is the spirit, of which these are the fruits, is for it. No man can serve two masters.
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