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No people, for the sake of any seeming temporary expediency, can afford to sacrifice a principle of justice or a sentiment of humanity, and thus to peril the everlasting verdict of History.
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Sumner argues that sacrificing principles of justice for temporary expediency endangers historical judgment.
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