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This government had been more forbearing, more quiet, more complacent, under this series of offenses, than any government instituted since the foundation of governments.
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gutenberg.orgJohn Sherman: “This government had been more forbearing, more quiet, more complacent, under this series of offenses, than any…”
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Sherman reflects on the government's patience in the face of repeated offenses against it.
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Our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country" has been the watchword and creed of my public life.
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.
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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