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

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

If I am to be shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet.

I never thought I would be impeached.

Let them impeach and be damned.

I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source.

Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.