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It must not be uncertain, vacillating, or temporary, in this beneficent policy, but fixed and constant, so that hereafter it shall know no change.
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Sumner stresses the importance of a steadfast and unwavering commitment to freedom in government policy.
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Their existence is a disgrace to civilization; for it implies the common consent of nations to the Arbitrament of War, as regulated by these laws.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
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