John Sherman: “Owing to the division of the Democratic party, the Republican party is the only one that can hope to succeed by a direct…”

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.

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

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.