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I utter not only the rule of patriotism, but the rule of law, when I say that it was positive and peremptory.
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In this statement, Sumner emphasizes the legal and moral obligations of citizenship and patriotism.
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They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
It is a cause which, though long kept in check throughout our country, as also in Europe, now confronts the people and their rulers, demanding to be heard.
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