We would not have our country's vigour exhausted or her moral force abated, by everlasting meddling and muddling in every quarrel, great and small, which afflicts the world.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery.
We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands.
It would be immoral to walk away from the consequences of our actions, leaving behind anarchy and civil war in Iraq.
Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means, we would eliminate it.
If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.
If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war.
I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself.
I said in my heart that, rather than have war, I would give up my country.
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