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The power to do this wrong you may possess, but the right never.
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Sumner asserts that while one may have the power to commit wrongs, they do not possess the moral right to do so.
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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.
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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