Charles Sumner: “Thus shall we inaugurate Permanent Peace in the diplomacy of the world.”

As the Brotherhood of Man is practically recognized, it becomes impossible to restrict the feeling within any exclusive circle of country, and to set up an unchristian distinction of honor between civil war and international war.

By Perpetual Peace Kant understood a condition of nations where there could be no fear of War; and this condition, he said, was demanded by reason, which, abhorring all War, as little adapted to establish right, must regard this final…

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.