And who would refuse to protect the scattered settlements on our frontiers--the humble cottage and its peaceful inhabitants?--Who would refuse to guard our fields from desolation, our villages from destruction, or our towns from ruin? --None, in whom there is a spark of patriot valor.
Sherman appeals to the soldiers' sense of duty to protect their communities from destruction.
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Our family of states is already large enough to create embarrassment in the Senate, and a republic should not hold dependent provinces or possessions.
Canada and Mexico as independent republics will be more valuable to the United States than if carved into additional states.
If my life is prolonged I will do all I can to add to the strength and prosperity of the United States, but nothing to extend its limits or to add new dangers by acquisition of foreign territory.
The life of a civilian is in what he says or writes, that of a soldier in what he does.
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