Quotes from John Sherman

If we will not endure a king as a political power, we should not endure a king over the production, transportation, and sale of any of the necessaries of life.

It's time to stop producing stuff, and start producing fun.

We are told that this is an odious and unpopular tax. I never knew a tax that was not odious and unpopular with the people who paid it.

I have come home to look after my fences.

The best prophet of the future is the past.

Then came a bigger fear. Not the threat of imminent injury, but the fear that if I didn't go back up, I would be a chickenshit forever.