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They must be fixed in characters clear as the sky and firm as the earth.
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Sumner calls for clear and firm establishment of essential principles for the nation.
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Confessing the Fatherhood of God, and the consequent Brotherhood of Man, we find a divine standard of unquestionable accuracy.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
Men are erring and mortal; principles are steadfast and immortal.
The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
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