John Sherman: “There are some financial dangers ahead which can only be avoided by changes in our financial legislation.”

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.

The events of the future are beyond the vision of mankind, but I hope our people will be content with internal growth, and avoid the complications of foreign acquisitions.

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