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The government for the time being is expected to provide a remedy for a condition it did not create, but, instead of aiding, the government is most likely to need aid.
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Sherman reflects on the government's role in addressing economic crises it did not cause.
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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.
Our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country" has been the watchword and creed of my public life.
Our family of states is already large enough to create embarrassment in the Senate, and a republic should not hold dependent provinces or possessions.
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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