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In an age when ideas prevail and even words become things, the simple declarations of statesmen are of incalculable importance.
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Sumner highlights the significant impact that the statements of leaders can have in shaping public opinion and policy.
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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.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
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