I have lived among negroes, all my life, and I am for this Government with slavery under the Constitution as it is. I am for the Government of my fathers with negroes. I am for it without negroes. Before I would see this Government destroyed I would send every negro back to Africa, disintegrated and blotted out of space

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

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

The life of a republic lies certainly in the energy, virtue, and intelligence of its citizens.

Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects.

I never thought I would be impeached.

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