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But it is my duty to remind you how much the public welfare depends upon courageous counsels.
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Sumner emphasizes the importance of courageous leadership for the benefit of society.
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Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
Men are erring and mortal; principles are steadfast and immortal.
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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