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The mature liberty we seek cannot have the easy birth of feebler types.
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In this statement, Sumner reflects on the challenges of achieving true liberty, indicating that it requires effort and struggle.
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Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
I am in favor of a tariff for revenue, such a one as will yield a sufficient amount to the treasury to defray the expenses of the government, economically administered.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
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