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Where Human Rights are set at nought, there can be no tranquillity except that of force, which is despotism.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Where Human Rights are set at nought, there can be no tranquillity except that of force, which is despotism.”
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Sumner warns that the absence of Human Rights leads to despotism rather than true peace.
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