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But I confess frankly that I look with more hope and confidence to liberation than to confiscation.
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He expresses a preference for liberation over confiscation as a more hopeful and effective strategy in the war.
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The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
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Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
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