"What would a man do, if he were compelled to live always in the sultry heat of society, and could never bathe himself in cool solitude?"

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The principle, on which the war was waged by the North, was simply this: That men may rightfully be compelled to submit to, and support, a government that they do not want; and that resistance, on their part, makes them traitors and criminals.

— Lysander Spooner