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The victory of ideas is grander far than any victory of blood.
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Sumner emphasizes the power of ideas over violence in achieving progress.
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The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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.
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