It is the citizen's duty to obey the law until it is repealed or declared unconstitutional. But he has the inalienable right to fight what he
deems an obnoxious law or a wrong policy in the courts and at the ballot box
It is the suppressed emotion of the masses that breeds revolution.
If the American people are to carry on this great war, if public opinion is to be enlightened and intelligent, there must be free
discussion.
Congress, as well as the people of the United States, entered the war in great confusion of mind and under feverish excitement. The
President's leadership was followed in the faith that he had some big, unrevealed plan by which peace that would exalt him before all
the world would soon be achieved.
Gradually, reluctantly, Congress and the country are beginning to perceive that we are in this terrific world conflict, not only to right
our wrongs, not only to aid the allies, not only to share its awful death toll and its fearful tax burden, but, perhaps, to bear the brunt of
the war.
And so I say, if we are to forestall the danger of being drawn into years of war, perhaps finally to maintain imperialism and
exploitation, the people must unite in a campaign along constitutional lines for free discussion of the policy of the war and its
conclusion on a just basis.
Permit me, sir, this word in conclusion. It is said by many persons for whose opinions I have profound respect and whose motives I
know to be sincere that we are in this war and must go through to the end." That is true. But it is not true that we must go through to the
end to accomplish an undisclosed purpose, or to reach an unknown goal.
Our young men are being taken by the hundreds of thousands for the purpose of waging this war on the Continent of Europe,
possibly Asia or Africa, or anywhere else that they may be ordered
Which sentence from the passage best demonstrates the author's use of a faulty generalization in which he provides no evidence
for his assertion?
A. The President's leadership was followed in the faith that he had some big, unrevealed plan by which peace that
would exalt him before all the world would soon be achieved.
B. If the American people are to carry on this great war, if public opinion is to be enlightened and intelligent, there
must be free discussion
C. But he has the inalienable right to fight what he deems an obnoxious law or a wrong policy in the courts and at the
ballot box
D. Our young men are being taken by the hundreds of thousands for the purpose of waging this war on the Continent
of Europe, possibly Asia or Africa, or anywhere else that they may be ordered.
