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I hold it to be the most monstrous proposition ever uttered within the Senate that conquering a country like Mexico, the President can constitute himself a despotic ruler without the slightest limitation on his power. If all this be true, war is indeed dangerous!

— John C. Calhoun

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

There are few things more dangerous in a democracy than allowing a President to wage secret wars without the knowledge of the country.

— Glenn Greenwald

You get enough people agreeing in consciousness that Mexico is a dangerous place, and that dangerous thought will make it so.

— Marianne Williamson

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

— Plato

If every small nation with a border dispute believes they can go ahead and launch a pre-emptive war and that it will be approved by the greatest power, that is a very dangerous thing.

— Walter Cronkite

War... is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.

— Ludwig von Mises

No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war.

— Wendell Willkie

You always try to fight someone from another country. But having said that, the public knows, everybody knows, when there's two Mexicans in the ring, there will be a war.

— Canelo Alvarez

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Denying the president a constitutional voice is the real threat to our system of separated powers.

— Joan Larsen

The President of the United States thinks that for the Japanese opium is more dangerous than war.

— Townsend Harris

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