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Everything is given to the one, almost without debate; but little is given to the other without higgling at every stage.
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Sumner points out the disparity in how resources are allocated to military versus financial needs.
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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.
It is true, doubtless, that there are various races of men; but there is but one great Human Family, in which Caucasian, Ethiopian, Chinese, and Indian are all brothers, children of one Father, and heirs to one happiness.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
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