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It can never rest secure on broken faith and injustice.
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Sumner argues that true security cannot be built on broken promises and injustice, highlighting the moral imperative for justice.
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Their existence is a disgrace to civilization; for it implies the common consent of nations to the Arbitrament of War, as regulated by these laws.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
Tendencies of nations, as revealed in history, teach that our aims are in harmony with prevailing laws, which God, in his benevolence, has ordained for mankind.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
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