Protection at home in the secure enjoyment of the rights of person and property is the foundation of all human government, without which its forms are a mockery and with which mere forms of government become a matter of indifference.
Sherman articulates the fundamental role of protection of rights in the legitimacy of government.
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Canada and Mexico as independent republics will be more valuable to the United States than if carved into additional states.
What I have written is no doubt clouded with partisanship, but I would not be honest if I did not express my attachment to my party.
Our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country" has been the watchword and creed of my public life.
The life of a civilian is in what he says or writes, that of a soldier in what he does.
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