Passitivity and quietism are invitations to war.
When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.
The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat.
Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?
Lawlessness is a self-perpetuating, ever-expanding habit.
Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.