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It is the old pretension of prerogative, to be encountered, I trust, by that same inexorable determination which once lifted England to heroic heights.
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Sumner draws a parallel between historical struggles for liberty and the current political climate.
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The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
Far above any flickering light or battle-lantern of party is the everlasting sun of Truth, in whose beams are the duties of men.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
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