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We have been taught by recent fearful experience that delay and doubt in this time of revolutionary activity are stagnation and death.
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Sherman warns against the dangers of hesitation during a time of significant change and upheaval.
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I have given my views, speaking for no other man, frankly and fearlessly, and I will stand by them now and in the future.
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