John Sherman: “If it cannot live in the affections of the people it must one day perish.”

Our family of states is already large enough to create embarrassment in the Senate, and a republic should not hold dependent provinces or possessions.

What I have written is no doubt clouded with partisanship, but I would not be honest if I did not express my attachment to my party.

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.

Our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country" has been the watchword and creed of my public life.