All Trade, in essence, is advantageous, even to the party who profits by it the least; all War, in essence, is ruinous: and yet the great employments of Government are to treasure up occasions of War, and to put fetters upon Trade.
In this statement, Sumner contrasts the benefits of trade with the harms of war, critiquing government priorities.
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