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5536. MORALITY (National), Governments and.—
Your ideas of the moral obligations
of governments are perfectly correct.
The man who is dishonest as a statesman would
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strangely absurd to suppose that a million of
human beings, collected together, are not under
the same moral laws which bind each of them
separately.—
To George Logan. Ford ed., x, 68.
(P.F.,,
Nov. 1816)
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