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To help in this work it is not necessary to be emperor or king.
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Sumner asserts that anyone can contribute to positive change, regardless of their status.
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I am in favor of a tariff for revenue, such a one as will yield a sufficient amount to the treasury to defray the expenses of the government, economically administered.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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