John Sherman: “No court has ever denied the power of the national government to protect its citizens in their essential rights as…”

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.

During forty years of public life, though many able men have aspired to the office I hold, the people of Ohio, through their general assembly, have preferred me to represent them.

Canada and Mexico as independent republics will be more valuable to the United States than if carved into additional states.