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A timid policy will be our ruin; a bold one wins friends and awes enemies.
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Sumner advocates for bold policies as essential for gaining allies and intimidating adversaries.
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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.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
Confessing the Fatherhood of God, and the consequent Brotherhood of Man, we find a divine standard of unquestionable accuracy.
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