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If his partisans are exacting, vindictive, and unjust, they act only in harmony with his nature, too truly represented in them.
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Sumner argues that the vindictive nature of the President's partisans reflects his own character.
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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.
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.
Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
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