John Sherman: “We constantly forget in our political contests that the great body of…”

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We constantly forget in our political contests that the great body of the questions we have to decide are nonpolitical.

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Sherman emphasizes the importance of recognizing nonpolitical issues in political debates.

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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.

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.

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.

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John Sherman: “We constantly forget in our political contests that the great body of the questions we have to decide are nonpolitical.”