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5646. NATIONS, Just and unjust.—[continued].

No nation, however powerful,
any more than an individual, can be
unjust with impunity. Sooner or later public
opinion, an instrument merely moral in the
beginning, will find occasion physically to inflict
its sentences on the unjust.—
To James Madison. Ford ed., viii, 300.
(M. 1804)