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I believe it ought to be so, for the leading questions involved are purely business questions, affecting material interests common alike to men of all parties.
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Sherman advocates for a business-focused approach to political questions, emphasizing common interests across party lines.
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Though my grateful thanks are due to them and have been often expressed, yet I have felt, as they do, that my duty was to the whole country.
The life of a civilian is in what he says or writes, that of a soldier in what he does.
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.
It was settled by this war that we have a country limited in its powers by the constitution of the United States fairly construed.
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