When I die, I desire no better winding sheet than the Stars and Stripes, and no softer pillow than the Constitution of my country.

The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.

Let them impeach and be damned.

It is our sacred duty to transmit unimpaired to our posterity the blessings of liberty which were bequeathed to us by the founders of the Republic.

I feel incompetent to perform duties...which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.

I have reached the summit of my ambition.

Duties have been mine; consequences are God's.