It will make necessary a navy equal to largest of powers; a greatly increased military establishment; immense sums for fortifications and harbors; multiply occasions for dangerous complications with foreign nations, and increase burdens of taxation.
Hoar outlines the military and financial burdens that would arise from imperial ambitions, emphasizing the costs of war.
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