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I show you how their dearest rights are cloven down, while a Tyrannical Usurpation seeks to install itself on their very necks!
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Sumner passionately argues against tyranny and the oppression of people's rights.
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According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
Nay, more,--if it would be criminal in these several clusters of States to reëstablish the Institution of War as Arbiter of Justice, then is it criminal in the Commonwealth of Nations to continue it.
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