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There have been victories of war, won on hard-fought fields, but none comparable to the victories of peace.
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Sumner contrasts the victories of war with the more significant victories achieved through peace.
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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.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
In this contest, we may borrow from the ancient Greek, who, when his hands were cut off, fought with his stumps, and even with his teeth.
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