John Sherman: “It was a departure from every principle of the financial policy of this government from its foundation.”

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

If my life is prolonged I will do all I can to add to the strength and prosperity of the United States, but nothing to extend its limits or to add new dangers by acquisition of foreign territory.

Our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country" has been the watchword and creed of my public life.

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