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

Let us look forward to the time when we can take the flag of our country and nail it below the Cross, and there let it wave as it waved in the olden times, and let us gather around it and inscribed for our motto: 'Liberty and Union, one and inseparable, now and forever,' and exclaim, 'Christ first, our country next!'

I realized, there are people out there who can beat me, want to beat me. And unless I continue to innovate and evolve, I am going to learn a painful lesson from someone who has.

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

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.

Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.

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