John Sherman: “If you can keep free from committals to Johnson, you will surely as you live be called upon to act as President.”

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.

The life of a civilian is in what he says or writes, that of a soldier in what he does.

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.

It was settled by this war that we have a country limited in its powers by the constitution of the United States fairly construed.