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Harder still, innocent pensioners, wards of the Nation, must bear the same doom.
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Sumner highlights the plight of innocent pensioners who are affected by financial policies.
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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.
Let loyalty to one man be exchanged for Love to Man.
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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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