John Sherman: “It maintains the supremacy of the national government on all national affairs, while observing and protecting the rights…”

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.

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.

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