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

Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests.

If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrat at the other, all would be well with the country.

If you always support the correct principles then you will never get the wrong results!

I am sworn to uphold the Constitution as Andy Johnson understands it and interprets it.

I have performed my duty to my God, my country, and my family. I have nothing to fear in approaching death. To me it is the mere shadow of God's protecting wing . . . Here I will rest in quiet and peace beyond the reach of calumny's poisoned shaft, the influence of envy and jealous enemies, where treason and traitors or State backsliders and hypocrites in church can have no peace.

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.