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As loyalty is the distinctive characteristic of our party, so is disloyalty the distinctive characteristic of the opposition.
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Sumner contrasts loyalty as a party characteristic with disloyalty in the opposition.
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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.
Let loyalty to one man be exchanged for Love to Man.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
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