I think he only regretfully consented to it, as a political necessity for the preservation of popular and State rights, which were seriously threatened by the triumph of a sectional party who were pledged to make war on them.
By the Constitution, the power to make war is given solely to Congress.
For a State or union of States to attack with military force another State, is to make war.
Therefore Germany had the right, and not only the right, but the duty to make war in order that Germany might be dominant.
This is to be a fight to the end, sir; and Germany will never have power to make war again.
It was a divine call, and he must fight to make war impossible.
In this letter there was the following passage;--"The king and his parliament mean to make war against us.
What you have sent there are too many to make peace--too few to make war.
Would any man of common reflection say, that, for the restoration of Hanover, it was worth while to make war on Prussia?
The aim of these articles is to prove that they wish us to make war.
If things so fall out that we have to make war, the responsibility, in the eyes of God and man, will rest entirely upon those who deny their own signature, and refuse to execute treaties.
The emperor advanced suddenly towards him: "Austria wishes, then, to make war against us?
In compelling the French people to make war, you compel them only to think of war, only to live in war; and the French legions are numerous and brave.
Why do they not counsel your Majesty to make war on the English, the Muscovites, and the Prussians?
Germany had studied more than how to make war with an army.
She had studied how the people at home should help an army to make war.
It made us misjudge the Germans and the Germans misjudge us when they thought of us as trying to make war on the continent of Europe.
The German Kaiser cherishes the purpose to make war, and this purpose is shared in and approved by the whole body of the German people.
It is the first, the immediate, the all-absorbing duty of every man, woman and child in Canada to make war.
What have we to do," it was said, "with going abroad to make war on Mussulmans?
So make war on them: By your hands will God chastise them, and will put them to shame, and will give you victory over them, and will heal the bosoms of a people who believe; And will take away the wrath of their hearts.
He wanted Count Charles d'Anjou, brother of the King of France, to wrest the crown of Sicily from Manfred, but King Louis had thus far forbidden his brother to make war on Manfred.
They will continue to make war on us unless we conquer them.
As we know, the Christians of today have not the zeal to make war on us that their forefathers had.
And King Louis of France is kindly disposed to me and will not permit any of his great barons to make war on me.
The Tartars have new leaders since those days, and that is why they have chosen to make war on the Mohammedans.
So, finally learning that they could not make war on this chief's people unbeknown to them, they gave up making war on this particular band.
They went back home and shortly after the buffalo, hearing about him coming back to life, decided to make war on him and kill him and his wife, she being the one who brought him back to life.
It is affirmed that he was desirous of stirring up Prusias also tomake war on Rome; a folly, which, as it is told, sounds very far from credible.
Westerling planned to make wardeliberately to satisfy his ambition.
If his work were to make war, her work was against war--the mission of her life as she saw it in the intense, passionate moments when some new absurdity of its processes appeared to her.
This is why the big nations hesitate to make war; why they prepare well; why the stake is so great that the smallest detail must not be overlooked.
After my departure, according to what the Governor writes to me, it became known that Atahualpa had assembled troops to make war on the Christians, and justice was done upon him.
As an inducement for the King to coincide in this arrangement, the Emperor undertook to make war on France by sea and land, and not desist until Henry "had recovered his right and title in the same.
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