John Sherman: “I was regarded as a wild, reckless lad, eager in controversy and ready to fight.”

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

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

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.

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