It needs that all the resources of the country should be brought into activity,--that agriculture should be fostered, that commerce should be revived, that emigration should be encouraged; but this cannot be done without that security which is found in equal laws and a contented people.
Sumner outlines the need for national resources to be mobilized for economic recovery and social stability.
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Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
I agree with the Convention in the importance of the new organization; nor do I think there are many candid persons, recognizing morals as the soul of all true politics, who will hesitate in this conclusion.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
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