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The same qualities that have enabled a single generation of men to develop the resources of a continent, would enable us to destroy more rapidly than we have constructed.
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gutenberg.orgJohn Sherman: “The same qualities that have enabled a single generation of men to develop the resources of a continent, would enable us…”
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Sherman warns that the same qualities that build a nation can also lead to its destruction.
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