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They desire to see the Declaration of Independence no longer a promise, but a living letter.
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Sumner expresses the desire for the ideals of the Declaration of Independence to be fully realized.
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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.
As the Brotherhood of Man is practically recognized, it becomes impossible to restrict the feeling within any exclusive circle of country, and to set up an unchristian distinction of honor between civil war and international war.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
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