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In the due exercise of your official power, in strictest accordance with law and the Constitution, you can deprive the enemy of that which, above all else, has given, and still gives him, aid and comfort.

— Robert Dale Owen

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Under the Constitution, giving 'aid and comfort' to a wartime enemy can lead to a charge of treason.

— Walter Cronkite

Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment.

— Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.

— John Stuart Mill

This nation has given the world an object lesson in the whole duty of neutrals, which is to furnish an outlet for the wrath of a belligerent who is annoyed because he cannot defeat his opponent.

— Elmer Davis

There are always interests that are furthered by war. Therefore, those who have power and influence can also stop them... we should not accept any excuses from those in power.

— Martti Ahtisaari

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

— Eckhart Tolle

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

— Theodor Adorno

Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.

— Gerrit Smith

If some nation says to us, 'You can have aid, but you have to end confrontation,' then I say, 'Go to hell with your aid.'

— Sukarno

✗Opposing Perspectives

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

— Aesop