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And just in proportion as you seek to moderate it by constitutional limitations do you take from war something of its efficiency.
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Sumner suggests that attempting to limit war through constitutional means diminishes its effectiveness.
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Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
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