#prompt

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know. ↗

— Mark Twain

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Public emergencies may require the hand of severity to fall heavily on those who are not personally guilty, but compassion prompts, and ever urges to milder methods. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

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#emergencies #ever #fall #guilty #hand

Defence was an afterthought, prompted by necessity; and its introduction as a State function, though effected doubtless with a view to the strengthening of the State, was really and in principle the initiation of the State's destruction. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

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#defence #destruction #doubtless #effected #function