Upon this favorable statement I recommended to Congress that instead of applying this surplus revenue, accruing after the current fiscal year, to the extinction of the debt, taxes be repealed or modified to the extent of such surplus.
Sherman recommends using surplus revenue to modify or repeal taxes instead of paying off debt, reflecting his fiscal policy approach.
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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.
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.
The life of a civilian is in what he says or writes, that of a soldier in what he does.
The Union already embraces discordant elements enough without adding others.
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