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To repudiate a proposition in favor of human liberty would have been a very different thing from repudiating a proposition against human liberty.
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Sumner emphasizes the moral distinction between supporting human liberty and opposing it.
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The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
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It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
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