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Every victory adds something to that history; but such an order is worse for us than defeat.
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Sumner argues that a harmful order is more detrimental than a military defeat.
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Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
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.
The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
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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