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It is with nations as with individuals,--once stepped in, they go forward.
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Sumner draws a parallel between the actions of nations and individuals in terms of escalation.
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This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
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