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If that Declaration is not the truth, let us get the statute-book in which we find it and tear it out.
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Sumner challenges the validity of the Declaration if it does not represent truth.
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Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
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.
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