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Rarely in history has such an opportunity been offered to the statesman.
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Sumner acknowledges the rare opportunity for statesmen to influence significant change in history.
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They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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