Charles Sumner said "Here let me say, that, unlike cadets, these pupils will give the Government valuable service even while pupils." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

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Here let me say, that, unlike cadets, these pupils will give the Government valuable service even while pupils.

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Sumner emphasizes the value of pupils to the government even while they are still in training.

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But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.

I am opposed to a tariff for protection merely, and not for revenue."--Letter to John K.

The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.

They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.

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