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It is vain to think that one can be advanced without the other.
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Sumner argues that progress in society requires simultaneous advancement in both freedom and unity.
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Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
Far above any flickering light or battle-lantern of party is the everlasting sun of Truth, in whose beams are the duties of men.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
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