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Are you earnest for peace? then must you be earnest for Freedom also.
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gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Sumner asserts that a genuine desire for peace must also include a commitment to freedom.
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I agree with the Convention in the importance of the new organization; nor do I think there are many candid persons, recognizing morals as the soul of all true politics, who will hesitate in this conclusion.
Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
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