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 never thought I would be impeached.

It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.

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

Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigorously, more vigorously, and more severely, than by one.

There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws.

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