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You cannot, as I submit, fill civil offices from the active service of the Army or Navy without conflict with that fundamental principle.
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Sumner argues against filling civil offices with active military personnel, emphasizing a fundamental principle of governance.
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Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
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.
Tendencies of nations, as revealed in history, teach that our aims are in harmony with prevailing laws, which God, in his benevolence, has ordained for mankind.
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