It is an unfailing maxim, that if policy enjoins an act of violence, its execution must never be entrusted to the violent. (Friedrich Schiller)

It is an unfailing maxim, that if policy enjoins an act of violence, its execution must never be entrusted to the violent.

Friedrich Schiller

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