John Sherman: “Whatever theories may be proposed, it may be regarded as an axiom that the protective principle is a well established…”

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.

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

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

The Union already embraces discordant elements enough without adding others.