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No party can administer a government, that will not take the risk of temporary defeat when it is pursuing what, in the opinion of the great masses of it, is a beneficial policy for the country.
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Sherman asserts that a political party must be willing to risk temporary defeat in pursuit of beneficial policies for the country.
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