“We dare not even by silence sanction lies.”
" The Third of February, 1852 http://home.att.net/%7ETennysonPoetry/tfe.htm", st. 2 (1852) <br class="br">Context: We love not this French God, the child of hell,<br>Wild War, who breaks the converse of the wise;<br>But though we love kind Peace so well,<br>We dare not even by silence sanction lies.<br>It might be safe our censures to withdraw,<br>And yet, my Lords, not well; there is a higher law.
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