Let it then be heard, and let man learn to feel, that the true greatness of a nation is founded on principles of humanity; and that to avoid a war when her own existence is not endangered, and wherein the happiness of man must be wantonly sacrificed, is a higher principle of true honour than madly to engage in it. Thomas Paine, Prospects on the Rubicon, or an Investigation into the Causes and Consequences of the Politics to be Agitated and the Meeting of Parliament, 1787
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