Between two enactments, one requiring the surrender of property without compensation, and the other declaring that the nation shall not and will not pay an equal amount according to solemn promise, there can be no just distinction.
Sumner argues that there is no moral distinction between confiscating property without compensation and failing to honor financial obligations.
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It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
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.
More precious far at that moment the consolation that he had labored for his fellow-men, and the joyous confidence that all his cares had helped the Progress of his race!
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