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Everywhere outside the States Freedom must prevail; in other words, Freedom is National.
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Sumner asserts that freedom should be recognized as a national principle outside the states.
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Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
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.
Nay, more,--if it would be criminal in these several clusters of States to reëstablish the Institution of War as Arbiter of Justice, then is it criminal in the Commonwealth of Nations to continue it.
In this contest, we may borrow from the ancient Greek, who, when his hands were cut off, fought with his stumps, and even with his teeth.
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