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While valuing the military arm as essential, he saw that without courageous counsels it would be feeble.
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Sumner highlights the importance of wise counsel alongside military strength in achieving victory.
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Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
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