John Sherman: “He had not voted for it because they were negroes, but he had voted for it because they were men and women.”

Our family of states is already large enough to create embarrassment in the Senate, and a republic should not hold dependent provinces or possessions.

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.

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