“Nature has not implanted any power in man that was not meant to be exercised at times, though too often our powers have been abused. The privilege, inborn and inalienable, that every man has of dying himself, and inflicting death upon another, was not given to us without a purpose. These are the last resources of an insulted and unendurable existence.” MenHas BeensLastsPurposeGivenExistenceDyingResourcesPrivilegeEvery ManMeant To BeInsultedUnendurableWere Not Meant To Be Book:White-jacket: or, The world in a man-of-war Source: White-jacket: or, The world in a man-of-war