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

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

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

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

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.

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