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

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

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

Let them impeach and be damned.

The enactment of the Homestead Act would create the strongest tie between the citizen and the Government-he would with cheerfulness contribute his proportionable part of the taxes to defray the expenses of the political system under which he lived.

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

I never thought I would be impeached.