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Our country was built up on intelligence, obedience to law, desire for freedom and the equal enjoyment of rights.
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gutenberg.orgJohn Sherman: “Our country was built up on intelligence, obedience to law, desire for freedom and the equal enjoyment of rights.”
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Sherman emphasizes the foundational values that built the United States, including intelligence and the rule of law.
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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.
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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.
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